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...island intolerable, you'll be pleased to know that the 12 pristine beaches on rugged Great Mercury Island - 25 minutes by helicopter from Auckland - are exclusively yours. So are the chef and staff, the Pacific Ocean views, two villas (offering eight en-suite bedrooms in total), a boathouse, swimming pool, hiking trails, water-sports facilities and more. If you can handle the $20,000-a-night price tag (and the three-night minimum booking), have your personal assistant call (64-9) 360 8461 for the minor details...
...Spending summer weekends at the spacious patio and pool is de rigueur for the Kabul social set, though conversations tend toward war stories rather than the latest charity ball. In fact, so central is L'Atmo to the lives of the Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo...
...money-spinning English Premier League. India, of course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th in Asia - 13 spots below Bahrain, whose population is less than one-thousandth of India...
...person council this year, up from the nine that filled the roster last semester. “I’m really pleased,” said UC Outreach Director Andrea R. Flores ’10, who sought to expand the UC’s candidate pool last month through measures that included a freshman campaign workshop and a panel for women interested in politics. “I think the nature of any representative body that is elected by the student body should be comprised of half women and half men, especially if that is what the student...
...enrolled, they should also be able to reduce or eliminate the so-called “processing fee” that students have to pay simply to apply. The first school to get rid of these fees would surely benefit from the publicity and a more diverse applicant pool that would also include a greater number of talented low-income students. Harvard Medical School, perhaps, should take charge and set an example for other schools to emulate...