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Like the city in which it is held, the Macau Grand Prix has long been biding its time. For years, it trundled along in the bottom tier of race-car meetings as a sort of amateur's Monaco, the field dominated by weekend drivers and their hobby cars. These days, however, it is bigger, louder and definitely on the world map - fueled in large measure by the growth of Macau itself...
...splendid venue for you and 25 of your favored henchmen to feast on the likes of suckling pig, while jugglers, fire eaters, sword-playing duelers and other menials perform for your amusement. Afterward, sleep off the wassailing in the Villa, a discreet building that is the hotel's top-tier accommodation. The bill for dinner comes to a trifling $7,000; the three-bedroom Villa costs $2,720 a night in high season. Well, you wouldn't be skulking around in low season, now would...
...fickleness with which Republicans approach their candidates is frustrating. The top tier offers an all-star cast, yet the party discards them like unwanted wool sweaters. Former NYC Mayor Giuliani reduced crime in his city by 60 percent, but he’s pro-choice. Arizona Senator John McCain advocated the successful surge strategy in Iraq years ago, but he pushed for the failed immigration overhaul. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney turned a nearly $3 billion deficit into a $700 million surplus without raising taxes, but he only recently converted to social conservatism. Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson?...
...survey by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) found that seniors at some top-tier colleges—including Yale, Princeton, Duke, and Cornell—actually scored lower than their freshman peers...
...Harvard sailing team picked up where it left off last weekend, earning its fourth first-place finish of the young season and notching a key top three finish at a top-tier regatta in Kings Point, N.Y. The Crimson also kept a fleet of sailors nearby, as the team took seventh-place in a local race on the Charles River.Through just two weeks of competition of the fall campaign, Harvard already has four top finishes in only eight competitions.“It was a pretty good weekend for us all around,” co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs...