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...Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now, triple-glazed windows to block out the noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall's Frankfurt Book Fair, the manuscript was sold after fierce bidding to the British publisher Fourth Estate for a reported $675,000 as part of a two-book deal. That...
...that the Hearst people went to Lord Foster--the peerage came in 1999--for years the man Asian banking executives and Arab sheiks have pursued for the luster of Big Architecture. When you visit his firm's vast London offices you understand what it must have been like to await an audience with the doge in 16th century Venice. Clients and would-be clients from around the world crisscross the reception area clutching their portfolios and chattering in Italian and Russian. The British press says his profits have been in decline. He even lost a commission last year...
...meeting, now acknowledges that a “parliamentary twist” might change the result of the vote.UC members voted by a 26-19 margin Monday night to amend the council’s nondiscrimination provision. That rule currently bars funding for organizations such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), which requires its officers to “subscribe without reserve” to principles of faith, as well as several single-sex a cappella groups.The Monday night proposal would allow the UC to fund events open to the entire undergraduate body but sponsored...
...string music and drums. “Modern dance in general is appealing because it reflects upon life’s feelings and experiences so that anyone not rehearsed in dance techniques or history can relate,” says Chan. Other troupes performing include the South Asian Dance Company, which will incorporate folk and modern dance from South Asia, Dance Edge, a local company that displays the work of amateur choreographers, and the Harvard Philippine Forum, which will mix traditional cultural dance with new versions set to Ciara’s “One, Two Step...
Other troupes performing include the South Asian Dance Company, which will incorporate folk and modern dance from South Asia, Dance Edge, a local company that displays the work of amateur choreographers, and the Harvard Philippine Forum, which will mix traditional cultural dance with new versions set to Ciara’s “One Two Step,” among other hip-hop staples...