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...nights per year. Those are big numbers. But the clubs may still make sense for affluent empty nesters with the time and means to get away, especially as an alternative to buying a second home. Even with today's stiffer fees and dues, the cost of a club runs about $60,000 less than the cost of owning a comparable second home over 10 years, estimates Helium Report, an online newsletter...
...when it finally opens on Broadway next week, the lavish and lovely stage version of Mary Poppins will be flying into a stiffer headwind than it could ever have expected. Here's the medicine with the spoonful of sugar: a lot has changed in the nine years since The Lion King's innovative mix of puppetry, dance and set design transformed Broadway. The era of the giant musical spectacle is in eclipse. The real news on Broadway over the past few seasons has been the success of smaller, edgier musicals: shows like Urinetown, Avenue Q and The 25th Annual Putnam...
...nuclear progress. Washington knows that even if the U.N. Security Council passes some mild sanctions - a travel ban and a ban on trade in nuclear and missile program components - now being debated by the U.S., Europe, Russia and China, Tehran will almost certainly ignore these measures. And even if stiffer economic sanctions were to be adopted, Western diplomats acknowledge that Iran's windfall oil profits would cushion the impact...
...intentionally conceal the theft of other maps at this point.” But Goldman said Smiley still has “an incentive not to come forward now. [If he revealed additional thefts] the terms of the plea agreement would be null and void and Smiley would face stiffer sentencing guidelines.” The Harvard College Libraries—along with the other affected libraries—are seeking punishment to the fullest extent of the law, Brainard said. Goldman and the British Library have gone further—they have advocated an “upward departure?...
...dragon boats. A former engineer for a mountain-bike company, Chang got involved with dragon boats in 1999 and quickly became an lite competitor, traveling to events in Europe, Australia and Canada. He soon realized that boaters were slowed by traditional wooden paddles, and he designed a lighter, stiffer version that he started selling in 2000 under the brand Burnwater...