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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...future. With 15% of that money credited to the public debt, state bookkeepers will applaud, but the French attachment to the nation's patrimoine has sparked "a deeper, wider wave of opposition to this than to any of our other reforms." Is the resistance just misguided nostalgia? Properties the size of the Hôtel Kinsky in central Paris are rare, "but its interior is neither historic nor stately," sniffs Thierry Cardot, whose Luxury Observatory researches upmarket markets. He reckons the shack may go for under half its valuation of €57 million, but notes "better opportunities will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris Under The Hammer | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...class have tasted how sweet and blessed a possession philosophy is.¨ (¨This small class¨ indeed – 31 undergraduates enrolled in the class this past fall, and 19 undergrads signed up in 2004, when Richard Tuck led the course. By comparison, the average size of a Moral Reasoning core course last year – and Government 1060 now counts for MR credit – was a whopping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government 1060, "The History of Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy" | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...request of the Programs in Professional Education, who supplied the funds to do so,” Gingo wrote. Currier resident Colleston A. Morgan Jr. ’07 said the narrower mattresses would create certain difficulties for him. “I actually just purchased a full-size mattress because this smaller one will adversely affect my personal life,” Morgan said. Other students complained that the mattresses no longer fit perfectly in the wooden frames. They also said it was easy to fall off them. “They’re half-size...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Currier Narrows, Thickens Mattresses | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...hope for the future of the left; it is a must-read for any young Democrat who wants to change the current political balance.Sosnik, Dowd and Fournier apply a similar treatment to the successful strategies of large franchises and megachurches—these institutions have succeeded because, despite their size, they make people feel “at home.” It is at this point that the book starts to lose steam. While it is interesting to learn why Starbucks plays so much jazz (to give “romance to the coffee experience?...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fournier Interviews America | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...Meredith Bergen, 17, felt she didn't need or want other options when she was accepted by Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., in August. The senior at Downingtown East High School in Downingtown, Pa., came upon the school by searching for desired attributes like size and selection of majors on the Princeton Review's web site. She took a tour of the campus-"just me and my mom and my sister and the tour guide"-and found it "beautiful" and "friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Early College Admissions Go Extreme | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

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