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Travel experts say the decision reflects Carnival's strategy to market itself as a more wholesome, "family fun" cruise line and avoid the image of a floating girls-gone-wild video. Rich Gosse, spokesman for the California-based Singles Travel Company and Society of Single Professionals, which arranged the first International Cougar Cruise, says he understands the pressure Carnival feels to build that customer base in the current economy. "They've got to do what they've got to do to survive," says Gosse, "and we're grateful they gave us the chance to start this." (See TIME's photo...
University spokesman John D. Longbrake said that notice of the upcoming audit was delivered to the University and added that the University and HMC are considered separate legal entities in several respects. For instance, HMC and the University file separate non-profit tax returns...
...divers - the leaked proposal made Hanoi bristle almost instantly. China has retained de facto control over the archipelago since seizing it in its entirety with gunboats in 1974, but Vietnam has stubbornly clung to its long-standing territorial claims over the archipelago. On Jan. 4, a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the possibility of Chinese tourists snorkeling around a Paracel cove "seriously violates Vietnam's sovereignty." Chinese officials dismissed the Vietnamese protests, saying the matter was purely one of China's own economic development...
...Storys' fruit damage from that night and morning - which was forecast to be the worst of the spell - was in the 2% to 5% range, not great but hardly catastrophic. But elsewhere around the state, farmers haven't been so lucky. According to Florida Agriculture Department spokesman Terence McElroy, a full assessment won't be known for days or weeks, but "we hear anecdotally that there has been substantial losses in tropical fish, significant damage to the fern industry, and citrus - especially in the northern counties - has sustained damage." The same is true, he says, in South Florida for vegetables...
...former tax director of Harvard Management Company, raised questions last year regarding HMC's investment practices and "profit-driven mentality." To clarify, Rose voiced such concerns to a Crimson reporter last year, but the concerns focused on HMC's practices at the time of his employment in 2001. University spokesman John D. Longbrake's statement has been added to further clarify the timing of Rose's concerns and the University's response...