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...property is instead made for mooching on an opulent scale. Picture 30 sumptuous villas, spread over 12 hectares next to secluded Anse Louis beach, and appointed with every comfort. Private gazebos offer sweeping views of the Indian Ocean, but the scenery is best enjoyed from your own plunge pool with a glass of champagne. The service is designed for solitude seekers: you can stay cocooned, interacting with a personal butler whose discretion is matched only by his prescience...
...immigrant success, there are many others that speak, if not of failure, then of drudgery, loneliness and a future in a land that will never quite be home. Back in Fujian, Big Lin had a decent job with a construction firm. He made enough to play games of pool with his friends and occasionally treat himself to a seafood feast. Still, Fujian is a place which young men leave, so Big Lin made preparations in 1997 to go abroad, too. More than anything, he recalls, he wanted to see more than the rice paddies, potato fields and squat factories...
...campus where student groups are constantly vying for a limited pool of resources, the survival of a student-run extracurricular often becomes dependent on the benevolence of private donors, one-time grants and personal generosity. The question becomes, however, how long can student groups survive without financial support from the University? And perhaps more importantly, should they have...
...high-paying jobs elsewhere—and shape global markets from places outside of the United States. What’s more, foreign students studying in the United States must obtain a visa if they are to continue their work here after graduation. While there is a separate pool of 20,000 visas for internationals who earn advanced degrees from American universities, international college students have no recourse. Last week’s announcement sent these students scrambling to obtain other visas or make alternate post-graduate plans. After investing in these foreign students by giving them places in American...
...tomb, unearthed by filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, was sealed up again with a thick concrete slab. Now it looks like an ordinary piece of concrete flooring in the ordinary garden of an ordinary Israeli suburb, something on which you might put lawn chairs or a kid's wading pool. None of the neighbors seemed keen about the tomb's discovery; after all, they didn't want strangers running through their tidy rose gardens with torches of Heavenly Fire...