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...Isn’t that awesome?” Petersen shrieked, bouncing up and down *** and pounding on the table, when the conversation turned to the new Web site’s searchable archive feature that will make previous UC legislation available by online query. Sundquist, following suit, chicken- winged his arms and pursed his lips like a fish while cuing a song on Petersen’s laptop...
...British banned the hoary pastime of Sir John Walter Raleigh last July; smoking indoors now carries fines of ?600 for the offending party, and twice that for the publican. The formerly indomitable French, for whom smoky left-bank cafés and ennui are cultural staples, will follow suit beginning January 1, 2008. And cannabis-fans in the once surreally tolerant Netherlands will have to take their joints down to the banks of the canals and out of the world-famous coffee houses by next July...
...investigative story in 1999 demonstrating how Indonesian leader Suharto and his children had enriched themselves during his 32-year rule, the former dictator sued the magazine for libel. He asked for a remarkable sum of money - $27 billion - and he lost. The Central Jakarta District Court rejected his suit in 2000, a decision that was subsequently upheld by an intermediate appellate court and widely viewed as a victory for press freedom in the country...
...year after Harvard declared an end to its early admissions program, it seems that few institutions of higher learning are following suit. Approximately 65 percent of the 322 institutions surveyed by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions have early admissions programs, and 99.5 percent of these schools plan to keep their early programs for the foreseeable future, according to the survey released last month. “We surveyed what is generally regarded as the top 300 schools,” said Brandon P. Jones ’00, the national director of SAT and ACT programs for Kaplan. He said...
...development planned for Punta de Mita, Mexico. At the recently opened Fouquet's Barrire Paris, where rooms start at about $800 per night, guests are encouraged to fill out a "favorites" form before they arrive. The hotel then welcomes them with fruit, chocolates, music or flowers to suit their tastes. "You have to give your guests a warm, genteel, caring kind of feeling," says Adrian Zecha, whose 18 minimalist Amanresorts--from Bhutan to Morocco to Jackson Hole, Wyo.--epitomize the new ideal of understated luxury. His Amanyara retreat in Turks and Caicos, which opened in 2006, features 40 teak...