Word: retreating
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...what you would do if you didn’t have to worry about the costs.’ It was kind of refreshing.” Summers’ eventual plan for the new campus—first presented to Harvard’s deans at a summer retreat in 2003 and officially announced that fall—boldly called for both the construction of undergraduate housing and the relocation of two graduate schools to Allston, all anchored around a hub for interdisciplinary science research. To “consider more fully the opportunities and challenges” inherent...
...Rise early from your luxury overnight accommodation at the Franschhoek boutique hotel - a historic, six-room retreat, tel: (27-21) 876 4723, and head east along the N2 highway, with Table Mountain at your back. Once you've negotiated passage over the forbidding Sir Lowry's Pass, you'll arrive in Hermanus. Brunch at the Bientang's Cave restaurant, tel: (27-28) 312 3454. It really is found in a cave and overlooks Africa's only whale sanctuary at Walker Bay. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...himself) as a producer, songwriter and occasional session musician (he played guitar on the Drifters' "On Broadway"). In 1966, the Ike and Tina Turner song "River Deep-Mountain High" did not hit the Top 40 in the U.S., leading a wounded Spector to begin his on-again, off-again retreat from the world...
President's Retreat. You might catch a glimpse of the former First Family chilling out in Kennebunkport, Maine. But a better reason to visit here is the Beach House Inn. The 34-room, antiques-filled B&B across from Kennebunk Beach feels just like Ye Olde New England house, except with better bathrooms. Bicycles, beach chairs and canoes are available for use, as is a wraparound porch, where you can feel free to nap or read. Rates start at $209 per night, including breakfast, afternoon tea and evening port and sherry. If you stay three nights...
...microcosm of the trouble that may face the economy over the next several quarters. Oil now trades above $60 a barrel. Fuel prices will inevitably move up making the cost of living and doing business higher while the abilities of consumers and businesses to spend are already in retreat. (Read: "British Airways: Cabin Pressure...