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...same time, Bonnaroo and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, held in a polo field in the desert outside of Palm Springs, California, were attracting huge crowds to multi-day marathons that strived to create an alt-culture atmosphere. Getting their cues from European music festivals like England's Glastonbury, Italy's Evolution Festival, Denmark's Roskilde and Norway's Lillehammer, U.S. promoters have realized that once-a-year mega-events have financial and logistical advantages. Multi-day music fests not only allow bands to reach more people in less time for more money, but the scale of such...
...multinational oil companies have not helped by playing a massive role in environmental pollution and doing little to help residents of the delta. The international community, especially the U.S. and Britain, should do more so the world does not wake up to another Iraqi-style insurgency. Henry Ilonah Reading, England Like Canaries in a Coal Mine Ii was shocked to learn from "Bye bye Birdies" [May 22] that climate change may be killing migratory birds. I had no idea there was a link between declining bird populations and global warming. We should not forget that the death of even...
...DIED. Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister and human-rights campaigner; in England. In 1945, Marreco was recruited to the small British legal team prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. During his year at the trial, Marreco became acquainted with the surviving Nazi leaders-including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess-and was stunned by the weak defenses they offered for their terrible crimes. In the 1960s, Marreco helped found Amnesty International, and in 1968 published a scathing report for the organization on the maltreatment of political prisoners by Greece's military junta...
...young, but then their standards rose. "The holiday complex was rather noisy in summer, with disco music and children running around, and the apartment was too small for a permanent home," says Anne, 60. Then in 2002, when there was a lull in their luxury-export business back in England, they decided to retire early, and bought a three-bedroom apartment in a gated community with a swimming pool and a sea view. "As soon as I saw this building I fell in love with it. It has the 'it' value," says Anne. That process of constant upgrading has helped...
...evidently nobody else, encountered in their wanderings. But modern practitioners - Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer - have helped elevate travel writing, if not to a science, then at least to an art that values truth. No one has mastered that task more deftly than Jan Morris, 79, the England-born, thoroughly Welsh writer and historian. In more than 40 books and countless essays over the past half-century, she has marshaled reportorial insight and literary flair to describe nearly every interesting place on the planet. Unique among them is Hav, the microscopic, Levantine city-state she first...