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...hard to set a price on Antarctica's allure, though. What British explorer Ernest Shackleton called "Antarctica fever" is there for all to see in the eyes of the Canadian, Australian and American guides on the Akademik Ioffe. It leads them back time and again to the great, blinding white south. It is also utterly contagious, for after a few days of this heartbreakingly beautiful landscape, pure light and incredibly clear water, no one is immune. Taking in the ethereal magnificence from the relative protection of my kayak (wet suit carefully donned), I felt like I had left the earth...
...position that became known as dean of undergraduate education was created in 1972, shortly after Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May finished his stint as the final Faculty member before Lewis to serve as dean of the College...
...will present a musical version of the classic poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest L. Thayer, Class of 1885. Their imaginative rendition—which includes audience participation—may have audiences dreaming of baseball diamonds and cracker jacks...
...signal French contrition, nor are the hawks at the Pentagon willing to offer absolution. France has reacted coolly to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's call that it forgive Iraq's state-to-state debt of some $1.7 billion. And there remains the delicate matter of the American consumer. Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of the French employers' association medef, suggested last week that businesses shouldn't pay the price for politics. "Send telegrams to our consulates," he counseled angry American consumers. "But don't attack our perfumes, our yogurts and our airplanes." Guillaume Touton, a French-born wine...
...Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, located on the Left Bank of the Seine River in Paris, has seen many an interesting traveler in its day. Historically associated with great writers such as Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce, the store is filled with beds where writers and artists can live in the shop at no charge. Their only obligations are to tend to the shop for an hour a day and read one book a day. Bohemians and counter-culture rebels have for many years passed in and out of the shop in their quests for enlightenment and artistic expression. Last month...