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...fireplace. But if décor isn't a draw, the restorative qualities of the Mavida's indoor swimming pool and spa should prove a near irresistible lure to daytrippers and holidaymakers flocking to the area for its year-round skiing. There are two Finnish saunas, a dampfbad (or steam bath) and a whole host of esoteric treatments on offer, including sea-salt peels, lymphatic draining and meditation coaching. There's even a floatarium - a salt-water pool in a private room with ambient melodies piped in. The Von Trapps would never recognize it, but such is the new sound...
Under Cedric’s devoted guidance, Lady Montdore finds a new meaning in life—the pursuit of her own beauty. She spends hours each day in steam baths and facial masks, and for the first time, she is happy. By the time Polly returns to England, unhappy in her marriage with the perpetually unfaithful Boy, Lady Montdore has forgotten all former unpleasantness. She has a comically indifferent reconciliation with her only daughter and the novel closes with a most unorthodox arrangement of lovers...
...wasn’t poring over the philosophy of William James or the tenets of Java programming language while my classmates blew off steam in exotic locales—my studying wasn’t of that conventional academic type. What I devoted much of the precious break to was preparing for my annual Rotisserie baseball draft, an event that I had been anticipating ever since the Chicago White Sox nailed down the last out in their shocking championship run last October, ushering in the cold, depressing vacuum of four months without baseball...
...show doesn’t quite pick up steam until the entrance of Merryman Jack Point (Samuel Gale Rosen ’06) and his Merrymaid Elsie Maynard (Celia R. Maccoby ‘06) about halfway through the first act. Rosen, in particular, brings a real sense of physical comedy to the stage. As a result, every performer in a scene with him ends up inevitably playing straight man (or woman...
...more money, and fewer sexy minority statistics in return for bigger investments. But supporting middle-income students is not a case of diminishing returns. Rather it is a test of HFAI’s true motivations—a moral imperative. If the initiative runs out of political steam and endowment cash just as it becomes more difficult and more expensive, then HFAI will appear to be a ploy to burnish Harvard’s image, not the genuine attempt it is to equalize the financial playing field of higher education...