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...Harvard students’ desire to complicate, systemize, and regulate makes intramural sports more obligatory than optional, more competitive than inclusive, and too much like everything else we do here. A pickup game with friends is a great thing, but it doesn’t have to have its own board in the dining hall...
Live a Little. Off the mainland, at the San Juan Marriott Resort, you get a suite, with chauffered airport pickup and a dozen roses waiting in your hotel along with champagne and strawberries, all as part of their "Romantic Rendezvous" package. To properly appreciate the champagne, you can take tasting lessons with a sommelier, then enjoy a candlelit 3-course dinner. The next day, relax with breakfast served on your balcony, and take a packed picnic to the beach. Clean off the salt and sand with a romantic bath prepared in your suite. $536 per night, available through...
...keeping with romantic-comedy tradition, there is one special widower living in New Ulm. Handsome and hirsute Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is the local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only...
...With adult clothing, pricey collector's dolls and a pickup bar, the store sends a clear signal that Mattel intends to seduce an older demographic. This isn't as crazy as it may seem. In Asia, the Barbie brand is not deeply entrenched, so grown-ups are less likely to automatically dismiss it as kids' stuff. Besides, Asians don't necessarily put away childish things as they age. Collecting toys such as Hello Kitty merchandise well into adulthood is common. "Asian culture loves cute," says Richard Dickson, general manager of the Barbie brand. "They're much more comfortable with character...
...rest, the government will require banks to sign agreements binding them to increased rates of lending. Just how much risk that exposes the U.K. government to is unclear; the level of banks' exposure to the kind of toxic assets the insurance protects against is still blurry. And any pickup in the economy could reduce a lender's need to cash in any such policy. Still, "we need to offer this insurance," Darling insisted. "If we don't ... then frankly the lending will not start again, and we will have a much more serious situation...