Word: retreater
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...freshness that some, even Redford, fear is fading in light of overwhelming celebrity and business interest. Redford was quoted earlier this year saying that commercialism had brought the festival to the verge of being out of control. Gradually, Sundance has transformed from a creative retreat to the latest chichi spot for celebrities. As media, artists, and a-listers ascend on Park City, which regularly swells to 45,000 during the festival, companies capitalize on the exposure. Mere advertisements no longer suffice; among other things, businesses dispense gift bags, host suites, and throw parties to earn attention...
Students say figuring out the answer forces them to define their priorities in a way no other B-school course does. They are asked to keep a daily journal and attend an off-site retreat. Required reading ranges from classics like Creativity in Business to spiritual travelogues like A Search in Secret India. In one exercise, students spend an hour each day for a week helping someone else without expecting anything in return...
...economic or logical coherence in this - because there is none," says Dominique Reynié, professor at Paris' Sciences-Po. "Its goal is strictly political: defuse a month of crisis by letting everyone win a little, and no one lose." It didn't work. Those favoring reforms despaired of another retreat; unions and student groups promised more strikes and demonstrations, building on the momentum from last week when more than two million people took to the streets. Chirac's approval ratings dropped to 20% - a record low for recent French Presidents - while Villepin's slipped to 29%, just a year away...
...afternoon,however, Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas sponsor of a bill that would have split the difference between the Sensenbrenner and Kennedy bills, was in full retreat - literally leaving the building through the basement passageways into the Russell Senate office building. At the end of the day, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Cornyn's co-sponsor, was left alone proposing a series of amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone...
...succession of spooked online buyers also backed away, Bruce Krall, a commercial mortgage banker from the southern California enclave of Laguna Hills, paid a real estate agent $700,000 for it, with the intent of one day living there and making it an educational institute, vacation spot and retreat center, akin to Esalen in Big Sur. But because "personal family concerns" make it difficult for Krall and his family to move north now, Bridgeville is back on the market...