Advice from 鈥楲a-la Land鈥� and Britain鈥檚 Costly Hen Parties
Advice on Syria from America鈥檚 top universities, Yale and Princeton. Plus, the spiralling cost of pre-wedding celebrations in Britain.
Ordinary Americans, who are not of an academic bent, have a colourful term for the august halls of top universities - 鈥楲a-La Land.鈥� On Ivy League campuses, the argument goes that thinking is better than doing, and debates going on in the ivory tower have little to do with life on the ground. But as Humphrey Hawksley learned during recent visits to Yale and Princeton, the views of esteemed professors and ordinary Americans might not be so far apart after all.
Plus, the rising cost of hen parties - are they a hidden drain on the wallets of Britain鈥檚 young women? Often called a 鈥榟en do鈥� or a 鈥榖achelorette party鈥�, it is a celebration arranged by friends of a bride before a wedding. They used to be relatively low-key affairs but many have now expanded into expensive weekend-long, activity-filled excursions. Veteran hen party-goer Charlotte McDonald asks how they got out of control, and pleads for a halt to the escalation.
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- Wed 11 Sep 2013 08:50GMT成人快手 World Service Online