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Less fun can be the transition from a life surrounded by other Mormons to a world where many students don’t share the same values. At a twenty-first birthday party a few weeks ago, Langford struggled with the question of how best to respond to behavior he doesn’t condone...
...song continued, and I thought Matt would want to enjoy it in the company of his best friend. Instead, he walked to the bar, bought two Budweisers, and brought them back—one for him, one for the Vietnam vet. “Happy birthday,” he said...
...came on. It was not “As Good As I Once Was.” Matt shook his head and retreated to the bathroom, resigned. He did not expect to make any conversation when, from his right, a growling voice: “Today is my 53rd birthday.” It was the unshaven Vietnam vet, sickly thin, in an old t-shirt and a worn-down hat. He smelled foul. “I don’t have any money. Haven’t even had one beer, and it’s my 53rd...
...With the current museum split between the old clock-tower building and a contemporary wing across the street (the restored telephone exchange is now celebrating its 10th birthday), the plan for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki 2009 is to seamlessly blend the two. Here audiences will be able to segue from a McCahon to a Moore, a Picasso to a Parekowhai. And if anyone can architecturally blend the old with the new, it's Francis-Jones (whose firm FJMT is overseeing the works with Auckland's Archimedia). In June, his redesign for the Sydney headquarters of the Historic Houses...
Last week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined more than 150 foreign leaders in New York City to kick off this year's session of the United Nations' General Assembly and celebrate the institution's 60th birthday. Singh had a weighty agenda: he talked Kashmir with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, discussed India's nuclear-energy needs with George W. Bush, and lobbied for a permanent seat on an expanded Security Council. (Japan, Germany and Brazil each want one too.) The U.N.'s "structure and decision-making process," he said in an address to the General Assembly, "reflect the world...