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Once students start Looking Beyond the Ivy League--the title of another Pope book--they see for themselves the advantages that can come with an open mind. They find a school that lets students work with NASA on deep-space experiments, or maintains a year-round ski cabin or funds a full year of traveling in the developing world. Schools once derided as "safeties" stand taller now, as they make the case that excellence is not always a function of exclusivity. Some kids end up getting into Harvard and then turning it down because of the $30,000 tuition...
...Local villagers opposed to the development will sometimes bring you back down with a bump - they've been known to set up roadblocks and demand tolls from guests - but general manager Richard Neo will come to your rescue by golf buggy. Perhaps he should treat the village to a round of gui shi massages as well...
Fallingbostel, West Germany Sept. 29, 1986 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking no flak last week as she fired a round from a Challenger tank at the nato training ground [where she was visiting British forces]. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took...
...same scientific process that demonstrated that the earth is round and that animal species have evolved shows beyond a doubt that a fertilized egg is a full human being. The proposition that life begins sometime after fertilization is based on convenience, not science, and clears the way for the destruction of the weakest members of society. I am a liberal Democrat and a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U. who considers protection of the embryo a matter of civil liberties. LODOVICO BALDUCCI Tampa...
...certainly found a way. If it were possible to calculate the frequency of mots justes in a piece of prose, Franzen's ranking would be through the roof. He puts up Updikean numbers. His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail." A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth." The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines...