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...teachers, and Jamison and Asli for letting me rant one last time in their otherwise highly professional and awesome publication. Stay frosty, Harvard, and remember, it’s all in the game, baby. PEACE, I’M OUT! H. Max Huber ’09 is an English concentrator in Mather House. He prefers to be called Hans...
...formula is working. Offering tickets from as low as $15, the ENO balances popular appeal with innovation. It is best known for singing foreign operas in English and setting classics in the more recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have...
Fortunately, in Rekero and other small, upscale lodges, the Masai are also increasingly seen as a valuable asset. That night at dinner, I sit next to Helen Cotter, an English tourist who has come to celebrate her 50th birthday. She had seen all the animals she had wanted, but it's her guide she raves about. The young Masai man explained his culture, including the wild plants his tribesmen use to clean their teeth. "They don't go out and buy Colgate, do they?" she tells me. Says Looseyia's partner Gerard Beaton: "The tourists all come for the animals...
...lives in a traditional Thai house next door. Homemade scones, quiches and cakes are served in the main teahouse, which, with its wicker furniture and fanciful birdcages, could serve as the location for a Jane Austen courtship scene. You can also dine in the walled garden, which marries English restraint with tropical abundance. But the best seat of all is in the air-conditioned gazebo nestled amid the foliage. (See 10 things to do in Shanghai...
...Iori's English-language concierge service (free to machiya guests) and arts program (teaching everything from calligraphy to Noh drama in courses that last from a half-day to two days or more) will steep you even further in Kyoto culture. You'll be stepping from your latticed front door onto the quiet street and feeling like you belong - even if it is just for the weekend. See www.kyoto-machiya.com for details...