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...most colorful sheikdom in the Middle East--or the most ambitious. What other desert land can claim one of the world's largest indoor ski slopes, featuring fresh powder year round? While flying in on the stylish, state-owned Emirates Airlines, you might notice the artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree or the 56-story Burj al-Arab hotel, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, built like a billowing sail. Westerners are welcome, along with their vices. Europeans in bikinis mingle on the beach with Muslim women in abayas; alcohol flows freely at Dubai's nightclubs...
...hotels and shops, perhaps performance spaces or a planetarium. "This is a giant step in a city that understands what its core business is-food, music, the riverfront, culture, architecture," says Cummings. A riverfront park, long championed by the non-profit Trust for Public Land, is expected to take shape over the next five years, attracting new condo and housing development. "The riverfront is the cornerstone to the renaissance of our city," says Larry Schmidt, who runs the New Orleans office of the Trust, which seeks to conserve land for parks and historic sites. Already, the nearby Glidden Paint building...
...impatient tastes, he eventually got the university on the right side of the divestiture issue (embracing the “Sullivan principles”), undergraduate education (rolling out the Core Curriculum), and affirmative action (on which he later co-authored a wise and supportive book, “The Shape of the River”). He tripled the endowment, built the Kennedy School, and made Harvard more international than ever, in complexion and outlook. And by cutting such an inoffensive, middle-of-the road profile, he helped encourage a culture of intellectual and political diversity that not only served...
...public hearing last week.But most councillors praised Healy extensively last night, thanking him for his years of leadership and lauding his role in helping the City achieve an AAA bond rating.Councillor Henrietta Davis said the bond rating “puts our city in such incredibly good shape...It is a credit to the city manager that we have this kind of fiscal situation.”Also at the meeting last night, councillors responded to residents’ complaints that workers hired for Harvard’s construction of graduate student and faculty housing on Memorial Drive...
...waited so long to show it. O’Riain and Anderson keyed a hard-fought 4-3 over No. 24 South Carolina (6-2), but it was not until the seventh game of the pair’s opening doubles round match that this fact began to take shape. Down 5-1 and a break point in their match against the Gamecocks’ No.1 team of Natasa Vukovic and Gira Schofield, Anderson and O’Riain showed why they have been ranked No. 4 by taking their game to new heights. On break point during that pivotal...