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This may be an issue of institutional priority. About two weekends ago, Amherst’s president commissioned a retreat to discuss how to raise his school’s number of low-income students. Like Summers, Anthony W. Marx is a young president with a bright vision for his school. But Marx’s vision is closely focused on what he called in his inaugural address the responsibility that comes with privilege—a responsibility “to select the best of diverse students...
...music gets too intense or the wait between sets too long, visitors can retreat to the back room to play a game of pool or to chat with friends over a drink, provided they are over...
...years ago, Yifa began organizing outreach retreat programs for college students—one is a weekend at Deer Park, a mountain owned by Fo Guang Shan in New York, and the other a month-long program in Taiwan during which students practice a humanistic Buddhist monastic life mixed with research and community service. The retreats include students of all ethnicities, religious denominations and nationalities, and you can’t beat the price: free! For more information about the application process go to www.woodenfish.org...
Every May since 1996, Ieola Bakr, her two sisters and their mother have enjoyed a weekend getaway at the Akwaaba Mansion. The four-room inn, in a quaint Italian villa-style home, offers a peaceful retreat where the women talk and relax--they walk in the gardens, soak in the Jacuzzi and savor a Southern breakfast with homemade grits and biscuits. But the Akwaaba isn't burrowed deep in the heart of Dixie or even in some bucolic New England town. The inn, dating to the 1860s, is smack in the middle of Brooklyn, N.Y., just 10 blocks from Bakr...
...contains 11 aggressively simple songs about love, sex and getting drunk in the boho paradise of New York City's East Village. For their follow-up, Room on Fire, out Oct. 28, they retained the services of producer Gordon Raphael. While some may view Raphael's presence as a retreat to the familiar, it feels more like an assertion of identity. The Strokes look like bohemians, but they're actually formalists; their form is the three-minute, verse-chorus-verse rock song, and once again they offer up 11 of the best you will hear this year. The band toys...