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...Sandie Lee, a Hong Kong travel agent, has spotted the same trend. "Customers tell me their companies don't want them to go anywhere," she laments, "just in case they bring some bug back." But she is seeing the odd booking "for the end of June, to places like Singapore and Phuket, and promotions by airlines have done very well...
...spitting in public from $77 to nearly $200. Team Clean also formulated a point system designed to ?encourage? good hygiene among residents of the city?s 700,000 public-housing flats. Tenants who accrue 16 points in two years could face eviction. The point system is itself littered with odd value judgments; boiling wax in public is worth five points, for instance, while spitting gets you seven. To enforce it, the government will ask tenants to inform on dirty neighbors. Critics question the attempt to modify behavior through legislation, and many residents plan to ignore the new system altogether...
...departments or his support of equal treatment for women at the College, not only on our diplomas but in our day-to-day lives—yet such praise was rare compared to the criticism. Thus, when Lewis was forced out of office this March, it might have seemed odd that The Crimson’s editorial headline read “Lewis Deserved Better.” Though long since retired from the editorial board, I would guess that two related reasons lay behind that choice of headline, one journalistic and one Harvard-focused...
After college, Maddox took up all sorts of odd jobs until she landed a position as a writer for the Quincy Patriot, the daily paper for Quincy, Mass...
...Harvard lightweight crew suffered adversity this year in its dual loss to Navy and a fourth-place finish at Eastern Sprints. Nevertheless, this season ended like every other odd year since 1991—with the Crimson...