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Where the short, thickset Abramoff did make his mark was on the football field and in the weight room. As a Beverly Hills High School senior, the Los Angeles Times reported last week, Abramoff became the first member of the school's 2700 Club, for lifting a combined total of 2,700 lbs. in the power squat, dead lift, bench press and clean and jerk. He was one of the North Side kids, from the more privileged side of the Santa Monica Boulevard line that separated the superrich from the merely wealthy. Abramoff's father Frank had transplanted the family...
...latest pound-shedding plans from Sonoma County and Park Avenue. Based on each locale's particular tastes, these new regimens aim to make dieting more palatable by mixing snob appeal with an occasional glass of Pinot. Here's a look at the "destination diets" and a few other weight-loss books worth sampling...
...Students can catch up on coursework or travel internationally during the J-Term, free for an entire month from the crush of schoolwork. We are skeptical about the prospects for a J-Term at Harvard, however. First, it would be difficult to get faculty members to shoulder the extra weight of teaching another course. Also, a J-Term would fill no gaps that currently exist among the opportunities that Harvard provides. Cornell touts the small class sizes during its J-Term. Middlebury and Williams showcase the travel opportunities away from sleepy Vermont and western Massachusetts. But Harvard offers an urban...
...implemented few of the changes it promised, has looked fickle and feckless. Though he could still potentially lead his Worker's Party to victory in the polls, there is still some doubt as to whether he will run for a second four-year term. He might throw his weight behind his Minister for National Intergration, Ciro Gomes. Polls taken last month showed the Mayor of Sao Paulo, the centrist Jose Serra, beating Lula in a multi-candidate matchup. However, Serra is a notriously poor campaigner and he has been mayor for only a year. The governor of Sao Paulo state...
...difficult how much weight to give it. But the people who traveled with him were pretty frank. Martin was a chauvinist. Some of them described it almost just as a way of simplifying his world. He had to have rules about what kind of meetings he was having with people, and he tended to want to have business meetings with the men and social meetings with the women, although at the same time, he also knew that the movement lived and breathed on the labor of women...