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...station is London's new, hip gateway to Europe. Thanks to a recent billion-dollar refit, passengers awaiting high-speed trains to Paris or Brussels can sip champagne at the continent's longest bar, or eat oysters and caviar at a fine-dining restaurant. With the value of the pound plummeting, though, Britons heading to Europe are not exactly in a celebratory mood. Trips to Paris used to involve "a stroll around the shops to see if I could pick up some nice Parisian fashion," grumbles Jemima, a 35-year-old sales professional on her way to the French capital...
...into the highest echelons of the British establishment. These are the potential byproducts of an agreement reached on Jan. 21 by Russian oligarch and politician Alexander Lebedev to buy London's largest newspaper, the Evening Standard, from its current owners Associated Newspapers for the nominal fee of one pound sterling...
...seasonal menu. Featuring specials like apple crisp, chocolate fondue, made-to-order omelets, and baked stuffed eggplant, the festive event received rave reviews from students hungering for both gastronomical stimulation and a break from studying. In Annenberg Hall, Elizabeth R. Moroney ’12, sampled dried fruit and pound cake, calling the food “absolutely delicious.” “We should have this every week,” she added, before heading back for another piece of crispy French toast with glazed apples. While the reading period brunch was designed to give students...
...experience with Continental was just the opposite. As I approached the check-in counter, laden with two large suitcases to study abroad, the Continental counter person noted that one of my bags was one pound over the limit. But she followed up by saying my other bag was ten pounds below the limit. It was illogical, she explained, to reduce me to the humiliation of opening my bags right there and transferring one extra pound of items to the other bag. I was saved. I was loved. And for the cheap fare I had paid, I was shocked...
Reid, a five-foot-five, 140-pound astrophysicist, said the difference in estimated size was the cosmic equivalent of him suddenly bulking up to the size of a six-foot-three, 210-pound NFL linebacker...