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...stated price by at least 50%, and pick up a miniature, framed original painting for less than $10. Ubud can also turn up some stunning finds if you have the patience to browse through mountainous displays in the artisan shops located along Jalan Raya Ubud and Monkey Forest Road (store aisles will be almost impassable with paintings and carvings?take a deep breath and watch your step). One more word of advice: guides and drivers will often try to steer you to a shop or gallery run by a friend or family member, few of which will rival these three...
While it would be foolish to claim that cliques don’t exist at Harvard, they don’t define life here either. I can promise that a Rydell High Sandra Dee experience is not in store for you upon entering Johnston Gate, and that while some Harvard cliques may prefer pink polo shirts, they won’t sport Pink Lady jackets as a sign of their exclusivity...
Back on the ground, the Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store. To help win passage of the $51.8 billion relief bill, Congress allocated $15 million to the Department of Homeland Security to closely monitor the spending, a sum DHS inspector general Richard Skinner termed "a good start." His office, along with the White House Office of Management and Budget, is required to give Congress weekly briefings on how the money is being spent. The first such report spanned 10 spreadsheet-packed, rather puzzling pages--including a two-page glossary--breaking...
Raised in the lowly confines of South Boston, Lydia goes to work in an upscale department store, where she meets medical student Henry Wickett, the neurasthenic scion of a Brahmin family. The two soon marry. With a newfound robustness that he attributes to Lydia's love, Henry decides to chuck his studies and create an elixir to combat loneliness. He intends its curative powers to result from encouraging letters he includes with the product rather than any medicinal properties of the liquid. The remedy is only mildly successful, but it attracts a business partner, Quentin Driscoll, who envisions turning...
...illuminate the unethical rise of his beverage empire. Additionally, she excerpts actual news stories of the day. Lastly, in the margins of each page are voices from the dead commenting on or clarifying plot points. For example, when, early in the book, Henry fails to appear at the department store for a lunch date, the main text recounts that Lydia "was seized by an odd constricture of her throat ... he had never been late before," while the margin notes reassure, "Henry was not late ... he was at that moment hyperventilating behind a mannequin...