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Somewhere beyond the haggard indignity of economy class, and the mere adequacy of a standard hotel room, lies another kind of travel experience to which the passport is money - and lots of it. Scored a huge bonus? Won the lottery? Or are you just plain loaded? Here are five places to stay that will swaddle you with personalized attention and luxury, as well as relieve you of much cash...
...PHUKET: Private pools at the 39-villa Trisara resort come as standard, if that's any indication of the cosseting on offer. For a proper splurge, however, book Trisara's top-dollar escape. For $35,000, you'll be waited on hand and foot at a seafront three-bedroom hideaway for five nights, before boarding a three-cabin luxury yacht, which counts a spa therapist and chef among the crew. You'll then be taken on a one-night cruise around Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and Phi Phi, anchoring at Maya Bay - a location for the Danny Boyle movie...
Lars and the Real Girl, which begins as a standard indie study of the sympathetic oddball, soon reveals itself as a gentle comedy of community. Prodded by the town doctor (Patricia Clarkson), Gus and his pregnant wife Karin (Emily Mortimer) figure out that for Lars, Bianca is not a sex object but a love object--an outlet for the tenderness he has never been able to express and that his indulgent friends are thrilled to see bloom. Most movies celebrate the journey to another place. Lars pursues the counterargument--that most of us are defined by our past...
...fell down at a birthday party, Amy Vachon, 44, of Watertown, Mass., recalls that the girl ran crying all the way across the room--to her husband Marc. "I admit it hurt at the time," she says, "mostly because I wondered what everyone thought. There's such a high standard in society for the good mother...
...While many schools look at tenure as a logical step in the trajectory of a satisfactory career at an institution, Harvard makes a point of not favoring its own faculty in tenure decisions. "When someone is up for tenure, the standard and procedure is exactly the same as it is when the department is searching for senior scholars elsewhere,” says Brian W. Casey, associate dean for faculty affairs...