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There go the rich and famous, whooshing down manicured slopes in their designer parka-and-pants outfits and wearing $600 skis. Where can this be but Aspen or Vail? On second glance, it is neither of those places. Since the two most famous Colorado resorts have become insufferably chic, members of the smart set are seeking seclusion and pampering at Deer Valley, a 10-year-old resort in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. So far, this unspeakably well-groomed complex has entertained the likes of Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner and Cheryl Tiegs...
Many corporations have dreamed up creative means to pare down their debt. Vail Associates, the Colorado ski-resort operators, paid down part of its interest expenses in free ski passes rather than cash. And FPA, a Pennsylvania real estate developer, retired $19 million in junk-bond debt by giving its creditors raw land that it owned...
...situation may be changing in History: Two junior professors, Hue-Tam Ho Tai and H. Leroy Vail, have been promoted to tenure in the last year. But the English Department hasn't seen the writing on the wall...
...Associate Professor of History H. Leroy Vail, on becoming the second junior history professor to be offered tenure in 20 years...
...which might make most scholars skeptical about the prospects for real reform in South Africa. But "as we have learned from went on in Eastern Europe," Vail says, "you can never tell what is going to happen tomorrow...