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...insurance firm in 1889, the central Elite Plaza Hotel is now a rest stop for pop idols like Robbie Williams and Justin Timberlake. But push past the paparazzi and you'll quickly realize it's the hotel - and not its A-list guests - that's the real star. With pillared and polished granite hallways, and 130 rooms (which start at $275 a night) boasting high stucco ceilings and marbled bathrooms, the Elite Plaza is the epitome of Old World elegance. 3 Västra Hamngatan; www.elite.se...
...Yeah, he was definitely a nerd,” says Cutler’s freshman-year roommate, Mitsuharu Hadeishi ’87. “But he was the classic nerd. He wasn’t a nerd into ‘Star Trek...
...recent years, Harvard has lost several prominent tenured professors because their spouses could not hold another position at Harvard or another nearby institution. Star economics professor Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 headed west for Stanford earlier this year when her husband, who had spent most of his career at Yale, received an offer from the California university...
...degree that Dines managed to be at all compelling, it was in her appeal to the victimization of women who star in porn. Too many male consumers of pornography, she suggested, fail to realize they are “jerking off to someone else’s misery.” To drive this message home, she presented a photo of a woman’s face covered in semen. Yet, like her other assertions, this is not grounded in fact. American women are not sold into pornography as slaves—though engaging in porn may come...
...consumers are quickly discovering that Kindle’s flaws outnumber its shiny, new features, as evidenced by the fact that it has only a three out of five star rating on Amazon’s own website.The biggest hurdle Kindle faces is its cost. Consumers used to the relatively inexpensive iPod (80 gigabytes for $250 at Amazon) may balk at Kindle’s $400 price tag. Worse, $9.99 per book feels like highway robbery, given that Amazon will deliver hardcopies of gently used books to your door for half that price, shipping included...