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What's At Stake...
...just design and marketing. He's a very efficient operator," says Edward Scheetz, a partner at real estate investment firm Northstar Capital, which, with help from financier George Soros, has shelled out a few hundred million dollars for a majority stake of the newly incorporated Ian Schrager Hotels. For instance, nearly everything in your room, from sheets and towels to toilet brushes, is for sale. Schrager's even giving thought to opening stores to sell these wares. And he leases in-house restaurants and bars, which can typically be a major drag on hotel earnings...
...Scholastic Assessment Test is like the riddle of the Sphinx, an ordeal by questions that can make further progress on the road of life very iffy. Right answers put you on your way to Prestige U. The wrong ones could give you a lifelong personal stake in the debate over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup...
...what looks like a crushing blow to the vaunted Gandhi political dynasty, exit polls pointed to the BJP block collecting around 300 parliamentary seats compared with a little over 150 for Mrs. Gandhi's Congress party and its allies. In an election where no significant policy issues were at stake, Congress had hoped the allure of the Gandhi name would restore its fortunes. Although the BJP mercilessly beat the drum of her foreign birth - she's the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - what may have counted more tellingly against her was the BJP's record...
...doesn't really matter what we'd be competing in. So long as we have something physical onto which we can stake our pride and genuinely believe we are in danger of losing it, students will come out in droves. It could be football, hockey or badminton. Or even a different sport every year...