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Spring Break. The Orlando Ritz-Carlton's Family Fun package gives you two connecting rooms with a lake view. Upon arrival your cranky kids will get "ice cream passports" to cheer them up, entitling them to unlimited ice cream all weekend (the State Department might want to consider that perk as well). Kids 12 and under also eat dinner free when you dine as a family. At bath time, you'll find that each room has a signature rubber duckie - a spa duck, chef duck and golf duck - to collect. Rates starts at $478 per night for two connecting rooms...
...Back at Red Shirt central, a pair of Buddhist monks calmly ate rice and curry, as angry protesters milled around them, brandishing photographs they said proved that soldiers had fired directly at the Red Shirts. "I came not to protest but to cheer up people who are fighting for justice," said Pramaha Chartree, from the Sotorn temple. Last summer, at nearly the same place, other monks said almost the same thing - but in support of the Yellow Shirt crowds who had camped out in front of Government House. When even monks find their loyalties divided, there promises...
...dropping forecasts to rock bottom, companies have taken some of the fun out of the guessing game that is played around earnings season. Firms may beat their forecasts, but most results will still be terrible by historical standards, so it will not be as if the market will cheer relatively poor performance on the back of predictions that cheat to the downside. Very few companies will show results that fall much below the market's worst guesses, which will bring some degree of comfort that earnings are not going from being the worst they have been in fifty years...
...college basketball's annual bonanza, the Final Four, has arrived in the Motor City to provide a much-needed distraction. What's even sweeter: Michigan State University, located just 90 miles west of Detroit in East Lansing, made the national semifinals this year, giving the locals more reason to cheer (unless, of course, they bleed the University of Michigan's maize and blue and wouldn't dare root for an archrival). For a few days at least, the city can lose itself in the rah-rah world of college hoops. (Read TIME's special report: "Is This Detroit's Last...
Every March, housing day makes or breaks more than a thousand Harvard freshmen as they discover the fate of their next three years. Whether they tear open their envelopes and cheer over getting Adams, or cry when they find they’ll actually have to come to the Quad sober, there’s one thing every incoming sophomore should be acquainted with: their house’s party suite. FM has compiled a list of the best and the brightest in each house for your convenience. While any of Mather’s low-rise suites could host...