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...exceptionality they love and a normalcy few others will acknowledge, Harvard students find themselves attracted to a manic social scene that is stodgy by week and unmoored by weekend. Dr. Perfection and Mr. Lush co-exist tensely somewhere between Harvard’s academic grind and the wassailing grind-fest of Harvard State University’s parties...
...more important than ever. So we shouldn’t be surprised that during Tuesday’s “Rock the Vote” debate among the Democratic presidential hopefuls, the media chose to zone in on the most sound-bytable portion of the political slug-fest: the antagonizing of current frontrunner Howard Dean for his recent contentious comment, “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” Sure, the candidates spoke about a lot more than just the former Vermont governor and his stance...
...everything has gone wrong with Harbour Fest, a series of 15 government-funded rock concerts intended to trumpet to the world that Hong Kong is completely over the SARS outbreak of last spring. It has a handsome venue beneath incandescent skyscrapers and world-class acts such as Prince and Santana have played. The Rolling Stones are due this week...
...allow a full audit of the books. "There's absolutely zero to hide." Late last week the organizers took out ads to promote the finale concerts, which read: "Never mind the politics. It's the Rolling Stones." There's been a whole lot of head banging at Harbour Fest?a lot of it far from the stage...
...wine region of Martinborough, with the Toast Martinborough drinkathon. Your chances of attending are slim, if last year is anything to go by - the 10,500 tickets for the 2002 event sold out in less than an hour. Console yourself with the Great Fitzroy Mussel Fest (a vast mussel bake on Great Barrier Island on Jan. 10, 2004), or Wellington's Pinot Noir 2004 - a taste-and-talk fest for lovers of the trendy varietal from Jan. 28-Jan. 31. The Hawkes Bay Festival (Feb. 6-Feb. 9) sees open house, if not open bar, at 25 wineries...