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...Andy are apprehended in the kitchen, searching for wine. A fine white is offered without hesitation. Later still, another bottle disappears from an ornamental selection next to the reception. Our second night is chilly and we ask a passing waiter to light one of the open fires. It's slow to kindle so, at Andy's suggestion, G. removes a perfume spray from a display range of spa products and, holding a cigarette lighter in front of the nozzle, produces fragrant jets of flame. I pose these miscreants, fully dressed and shod, for a group photo in G.'s bath...
This can be a slow process, educating parents. "After Colleges That Change Lives came out, I got letters from all around the country from mamas saying 'You saved us,'" Pope says. "Well, more mamas need saving." At Brookline High School in Brookline, Mass., headmaster Bob Weintraub estimates that fully 1 in 3 of his students' parents went to Harvard. That means one of his many jobs is defusing the tension they promote. On their own, students set up a wall by the counseling office where they post their rejection letters. They call it the Wall of Shame...
...needs of his client with solicitous nods and smiles. After all, when it comes to selling advice?and financial products?to the rich, earning trust is the first order of business. "Relationship managers are forever eager to propose the right solutions," says Radcliffe. "We're always trying to say, 'Slow it down...
...mass-scale defections. "Passengers are getting more used to the idea of terrorism as an ongoing threat," says Philip Baggaley, airline analyst for Standard & Poor's in New York - which did not change its ratings on any U.S. airlines after the plot disclosure. He expects passenger traffic to slow after the holiday season, but says it will be hard to tell how much of that is due to security concerns, and how much to the weakening U.S. economy. And, unless the Bush Administration adds new security-related fees onto ticket prices, he reckons the impact of the latest scare...
...slow course of the investigation has muted some of the fury that reached a peak last May when Congressman John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania with longtime ties to the military who has turned against the Iraq War, claimed that the Marines in Haditha had "killed in cold blood." Murtha too is facing a civil lawsuit for defamation from SSgt Wuterich, but he has not backed off his remarks...