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...local journalists have been allowed to view court hearings via televised feed, while the state-controlled media has run lengthy screeds against the defendants. This about-face is a reaction by authorities to modern realities, says Martin Gainsborough, a political scientist and Vietnam expert at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Nearly 60% of Vietnamese are under 30 years old; many are Internet literate and able to access news and information from the outside world. There's no point in downplaying a political crackdown because people will find out about it anyway, Gainsborough says. Instead, the government has opted...
...Palacoeur For the head concierge at the Intercontinental Bora Bora resort--a former employee of the Paris Ritz, Le Crillon and Le Bristol--fulfilling guests' needs can be a challenge on a remote South Pacific island. "If a guest wants a Cuban cigar, he doesn't need to know you've anticipated his request by at least a month to get it through local customs," says Palacoeur, who lists among his triumphs securing a submarine for an underwater wedding in which the groom was a diver but the bride was not. "That was the deepest kiss I ever...
...literate, eager to join the global community and able to access news and information from the outside world. There's no point in downplaying a political crackdown because people will find out about it anyway, according to Martin Gainsborough, a political scientist and Vietnam expert at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Instead, the government is trying "to continually remind the public that these people are beyond the pale," Gainsborough says. "They need to keep the dissidents and the majority of citizens apart." The overall message: that activists are criminals, not dissidents - and that they are threatening Vietnam...
Three hours to go before the evening's performance and something isn't right. Sitting at a grand piano in St. George's concert hall in Bristol, England, on May 12, Derek Paravicini tears through a rehearsal of The Flight of the Bumblebee, his fingers skittering across the piano keys. The musicians in the Emerald Ensemble orchestra feed off his energy and manage to keep up the pace, but it all sounds a bit off. After several stops and starts, the conductor discovers the problem: the orchestra and the star have been practicing different versions of the same piece...
...Part of why children’s literature is so appealing is that it retains elements that adult literature has lost. In children’s literature one is free to indulge in pure escapism to another world, whether it be in a wardrobe or an opium den in Bristol. The adult fixation on children’s literature is simultaneously nostalgia for the past and a desire to mold the future. And for some it’s just a good read. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...