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...Nicklaus, a pioneer among the player-designers, has announced a $1.35 billion golf-resort venture in the Cape Verde Islands, off the West African coast. Gary Player Design built the first public course in China on an island off Hong Kong and just opened another course outside Shanghai. "Seventy percent of the people who live on these courses in Asia don't play golf," says Marc Player, CEO of Gary Player Design. "They just want the lifestyle." Which is easier to achieve than...
...expulsion led to concerns about the future of the savings scheme. And while 95 percent of the book information would still make its way online, according to Petersen, the incident was an apt precursor to future UC strategies that, while rarely coming off without a hitch, would still find a way to succeed...
...Petersen went on to organize a referendum in which 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduates participating called for the calendar to be changed. Two weeks later, Interim President Derek C. Bok e-mailed the Harvard community to reopen a University-wide conversation on the calendar. A decision on the matter was expected Commencement week...
...concerns seriously,” Petersen said. To open a dialogue on calendar concerns, Bok himself circulated an e-mail to the University on May 2 soliciting opinions on the prospect of change. According to Bok’s statement today, the request for advice received 1100 responses, 94 percent of which approved of the new calendar.Discussing the advantages of the new configuration, Bok said that it would allow easier cross-registration across schools and diminish the stress of winter break.“The new calendar will bring Harvard much closer to the practice at the great majority...
...Along with lots of other events of the spring, including new scientific reports and a landmark Supreme Court ruling, it had its effect: All of the leading Democratic presidential contenders have now endorsed our call for 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We’ve moved the bar a little...