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More than white-glove service or custom-crafted luggage, the greatest luxury in travel these days is having the secret addresses and accumulated wisdom of world-class travelers. My first trip to Paris 25 years ago was informed by a list of 10 addresses scribbled down by a Francophile friend who loved the City of Light so much he practically commuted there from New York. Among the musts were places like Berthillon on the Ile St. Louis and the bistro Chez Georges. For years I passed that list around like samizdat. The idea of tapping into the experiences of globetrotters...
...complicated ways to cast one's ballot. Depending on where you live, you may vote tomorrow with a lever, a punch card, a marker or a touchscreen. As election scholar Andrew Gumbel notes, the U.S. has been both a "living experiment in the expansion of democratic rights" and a "world-class laboratory for vote suppression and election-stealing techniques...
...elaborate float of pigs strapped to lipstick rockets. But the Harvard student body comes from all over—even from red states. More than 25 percent of the class of 2012 hails from the traditionally more conservative Midwest and South. In fact, Harvard’s world-class reputation enables it to attract people from diverse backgrounds with diverse viewpoints. The problem is that instead of allowing this diversity to promote enriching discussion, everyone just assumes that anyone with any degree of intelligence is ipso facto liberal...
Pulitzer’s donation is an extremely generous contribution to Harvard’s ability to enhance artistic teaching and research opportunities at the University; it also brings more world-class art into the Cambridge area for everyone nearby to enjoy. We are sure the museum will find a way to use this gift in a way that does it justice...
...quality of the local workforce is poor, owing to an education system that has long placed religious studies above science and math (unlike that of the élites, who are often Western-educated). Reforms are under way, but it will be years before Saudi universities are churning out world-class engineers in the numbers the country needs. Nor can businesses expect to simply import employees, which has long been the norm in the Persian Gulf economies: mindful of that youth bulge, Riyadh is imposing a "Saudi-ization" program that requires businesses to hire more locals. It doesn't help that...