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...have to comb through bistros in Brooklyn while searching for Chinese food on New York City's Upper West Side. Schmap adds a slew of new city guides every month - users download 18,000 of them a day - and says it will start adding Asian destinations by the end of the year. A new software version launching next month will let users create and share their own guides using Schmap's mapping technology, thus allowing every amateur art critic and street-corner gourmet to post their own roundups of local galleries and restaurants. And while the software only works...
Unbeknownst to many of the freshmen eating dinner this past Sunday in nearby Annenberg, Sanders Theater housed a benefit show hosted by Harvard’s Sangeet. The show, an attempt to increase awareness of South Asian music and art, featured Pandit Jasraj, a legend of North Indian Hindustani classical music. Jasraj performed before a captivated crowd, singing in Hindi and displaying his incredible vocal range. The show began with a standing ovation from the expectant audience who, despite the near half-hour delay, were still enthusiastic. He then sought the audience’s prayers for a successful performance...
...pull [the doughnut] back out. I was in the lead until then.” At half-time, onetime basketball captain Damian T. Long ’00, a former missionary in Kazakhstan, said in a speech that his involvement in AIA led him to work in the central Asian country. While AIA’s competition was sugary, its mission is wholesome. In an apparent reference to the football team’s recent disciplinary woes, event organizer David M. Silvestri 07 said AIA provides “an alternative to the kind of things you read about...
...conceived (e.g. “Survivor: Gaza Strip”), “Survivor: Cook Islands” is pretty terrible. Contestants are divided up into four tribes based on race. The Aitu tribe includes Hispanics, Raro is made up of Caucasians, African-Americans are in Hiki, and Asians are in Puka. Calling the show a “social experiment like never before,” Jeff Probst explained to viewers that this year’s program was divided in this way in order to improve the diversity of its contestants. (Of course dividing people into racial...
...wasn't exactly the G-8. Still, when Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev hosted a summit of heads of neighboring Central Asian states in his capital of Astana earlier this month, there was a certain whiff of power being flexed, albeit arriviste power. The occasion was marked by the inauguration of the Palace of Peace and Accord - a 62-m-high pyramid of steel and pale gray granite, designed by Norman Foster, with stained-glass panels by the artist Brian Clarke. Its art and sculpture were chosen to represent the world's major religions, to underscore the religious tolerance...