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...Paul was really funny when we won the Straus Cup,” she remembered. “Afterwards, he and Steve [Robbins], they had this microphone [in the Eliot courtyard]...they did this interview show where they kept interviewing each other, asking things like, ‘What’s it like to be the best IM athlete ever?’” Wallace recalled. “People kept calling to complain because they were so noisy. They had to have one of the security guards in Eliot literally drag them away from the microphone...
...Tasmania isn't exactly known for its balmy weather, but whatever the season, you'll find some of Australia's hottest jazz at the Courtyard, an outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding...
...lush bamboo groves and rice paddies of northwestern Sichuan province, the U-shaped farmhouse is typical of the local architecture, with a wooden frame, stucco walls and a gray tile roof. Ten families have subdivided the 16 rooms of the 100-year-old structure into 32 cubicles, and its courtyard is dotted with drying pepper bunches and ears of corn. In the center of these crowded communal quarters stand three rooms unused except by the 60 or so visitors who turn up daily to see the birthplace of Deng Xiaoping. But even the smattering of photographs and old furniture...
...children to live with him in the two-story brick home to which he had been assigned. He spent his free time reading, listening to the radio and keeping fit. Deng Rong later told Author Harrison Salisbury (The Long March) that her father paced restlessly around the house's courtyard every afternoon. "Watching his sure but fast-moving steps," she said, "I thought to myself that his faith, his ideas and determination must have become clearer and firmer, readying him for the battles ahead...
They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates. Some haven’t seen each other in years; others have arrived with blockmates and best friends. In a few weeks, they’ll scatter once again. But on this day in late May, one group of seniors will take a last look at their first impression of Harvard...