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...Joshua D. Smith ’08 did precisely that. A native of Plant City, Florida—the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World—Smith left home with his conservative credentials intact, and returned having been elected co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). But the e-mails preaching the right-wing gospel have kept on coming...
...Skate for Hunger Now that it’s starting to feel like winter, it’s time to brave the cold for a good cause! Grab a few friends and sharpen up your old figure skates to help out the Greater Boston Food Bank. The Charles Hotel will be hosting a fine evening full of teeth-chattering fun to benefit the local charity and to raise community hunger awareness, with plenty of classy cocktails and tasty treats waiting off the ice. Thursday, Jan. 18 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. The Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett...
...much has stayed the same, why haven't oil prices? Analysts say there are a variety of reasons, starting with the weather. The current deep-freeze in the Midwest aside, this winter has been unseasonably warm, curbing demand for heating oil. "A third of the winter season is over and we haven't seen any normal consumption patterns on the East Coast," says Irene Haas, an energy analyst with Canaccord Adams in Houston. Haas also points out that an additional 1.5 million barrels of daily oil production is slated to kick in this year from countries such as Angola, Azerbaijan...
...Ronald Sayegh, the founder of Skileb. "Arabs understand the situation," he said. "The nice thing is that once it's calm, they are always ready to come to Lebanon. As long as we have snow." Indeed, with hardly any snow in the Alps thanks to an extraordinarily mild winter in Europe, desperate Western powder hounds may not have much alternative to doing their skiing in the Middle East...
...there much anxiety evident amid the Faraya set. As they head back down from the hills to the coast, many families will have a strange new white hood ornament on their cars. Snowmen are a winter status symbol that tell everyone in your home village that you've been up in the mountains for the weekend. The fact that the snowmen often block windshield visibility doesn't seem to bother anyone. Indeed, a certain joie de vivre in the face of danger is as Lebanese as the cedar tree. As my Lebanese skiing buddy, Alex, said when an errant snowboarder...