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...there is a theme to the reconstruction effort, it is "Don't look back." Despite pledges to punish those responsible for the substandard construction of dozens of schools that crumbled during the earthquake and resulted in the deaths of thousands of students, no one has been prosecuted for it. After nearly four months of investigation, the central government announced what any parent could have told you on May 13 - that an act of God may have triggered the schools' collapse, but that shoddy construction and dangerous locations near fault lines left them unnecessarily vulnerable. Even as the rebuilding reaches frenetic...
...branch of Kerzner's landmark resort in the Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle East's biggest theme park with a waterslide that plunges through a shark tank - an unintended metaphor for the current parlous state of the Dubai property market...
...Fishbowl.” “Pfoho Dining Hall.” That’s right: you can party at the site of your last all-night cram session for that killer Orgo midterm. Good times. Plus, you get to dress up in costume for such inventive theme ideas as “the 80’s” and “the 90’s.” Of course, when the party inevitably dies at around midnight, you’ll be stuck wandering around the River in spandex tights and a side...
...dangerous to undergraduates because it sort of encourages people to cram as much drinking into a small amount of time,” said Co-Chair of the Eliot HoCo Louis K. Kang ’09. Kang said that Eliot House is still planning a fully themed affair. “We’re going to have a country theme set up,” Kang said. “We’re going to get a cardboard cut-out cow, and its udders are going to dispense wine.” While PfoHo does not plan...
...anybody with doubts about Lieberman's fate, Obama's meeting with McCain in Chicago on Monday was a clear sign that the President-elect is more interested in building bridges than tearing them down. Reid himself underscored that theme at a press conference following the caucus meeting in which members voted 42-13 to allow Lieberman to remain in the caucus and to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Reform committees - though they stripped him of his seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee. "I would defy anyone to be more angry than I was," says...