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...People don't want to bake on the beach the whole time," says Rahal Bigger-Morf of St. Moritz's landmark Badrutt's Palace hotel (tel: [41-81] 837 1000; www.badruttspalace.com). The tiny Swiss village owes a lot to Johannes Badrutt. Originally a summer retreat, St. Moritz's winter potential was only realized in 1864, when Badrutt, owner of a small local hotel, told four disbelieving English hikers that winter was so warm people were in shirtsleeves. He bet them that if they returned for Christmas and proved him wrong he would pay all their travel expenses. If right, they...
...but—given the time it takes to make tenure offers at Harvard—of the last two years,” he wrote. “All of these cases were well under consideration, at the department level or beyond, before the events of this past winter and spring,” Kirby added...
Tristan Osgood, 13, who plays electric guitar in Grace Chapel's band, needed help when his grandfather died last year. He knew that the Bible says he would see his grandfather again someday, but he didn't feel certain enough. Then came the Grace Chapel winter retreat in New Hampshire. "I just went out into the snow," says Tristan. "I was cold, but suddenly I didn't care. It was like there's this barrier around you, just you and God, like you could bawl your eyes out and nobody would care." It was the moment that Tristan had been...
...show. Give us a break. The shop was closed. How many of us have raced to a store just as the closed sign went up? Instead of expecting others to cater to her every whim, Oprah needs to get real and join us mere mortals. Patsy Ann Taylor Winter Park, Florida, U.S. I would have thought that Oprah, of all people, would understand that the same rules apply to her as to the average person. Isn't compassion what she's famous for? Surely she could have had someone find out the Hermès store's closing times...
...August, knowing that those bright white puffs of star were made of metal and rubber and men and women. Like other fiery images, this one keeps replaying in the dark long after you turn it off, and while it felt like an attack on the calm of this watchful winter, in this case there was no apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits of man and machines and the tension between the goals we set and the risks we take. --With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington, Cathy Booth-Thomas/Nacogdoches; Simon Crittle, Amy Goehner, Sean Gregory, Ratu Kamlani and Julie...