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...Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn may have taken the cheap option on that Vespa in Roman Holiday, but in the real world a stay in the Italian capital could empty your pockets, especially if you're traveling with kids. A couple of double rooms in a decent, centrally-located hotel will set you back at least ?400 a night. So Residence Barberini is a pleasant surprise: for ?250 to ?375 a night, depending on the season, you get a suite of two rooms, a kitchen and a large marble bathroom, plus access to the guesthouse's funky art collection. Scattered...
...SALAAM, Tanzania —My parents, friends and relatives wondered how I’d ever get by here. I like the amenities of life in the developed world—decent cups of tea served loose leaf with similarly decent china, pan-Asian cuisine, good gin, clean bathrooms with toilets instead of ceramic holes. The Third World, despite my academic interest in its colonization, just didn’t seem to fit with my palate or hygienic pattern...
...have the Indians paved the way for my good times, and for other wazangu—white people, colloquially—as well. With my gin and tonic in hand (the quinine helps to prevent malaria, I’m told), decent tea and coffee at my disposal, even cheeseburgers and kippers, donning khaki and a Panama straw hat, it’s easy to forget myself, history major that I am, and fall into the thinking that it’s 1954, and not decades later. When a visitor in either time caught eye of a black polished sedan...
...Democratic National Convention, though, the Crimson had a decent showing, with more than a handful of Harvard degree-holders taking the stage for speeches. Among these was Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, who graduated from Harvard Law School...
...faux architecture and grand showmanship are thought of around the globe as simply American. If New Vegas foretells something about America's future,then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost. The only thing I miss about it is that culture went to bed at a decent hour. --With reporting by Laura A. Locke/Las Vegas