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...Still, in Bali last week, life went on. Locals decked out in their finest clothes?colorful sarongs, snowy-white jackets, gold woven headscarves?flocked to the island's beaches at sunset to celebrate their most important festival, Galungan. It's a day when the Balinese recall the legendary victory of Dharma over Adharma, of good over evil. But even as they lit their festive candles and covered the beach with baskets of flowers, it was hard to forget the blood that had so recently been spilled on these same sands?and tempting to wonder if evil has once again regained...
...cappella groups devour rooms for their rehearsals. One even has a posh clubhouse to use as its home base. While most Harvard students socialize in overcrowded dorm rooms drinking cheap liquor out of brightly colored Solo cups, a cappella group members hobnob with the rich and famous at the finest restaurants in Boston and Cambridge. That these flagrantly discriminatory organizations have been allowed to survive for so long is shocking. It’s time for a change...
...There are some things that just can’t be taught in a classroom,” says Porter, “even at one of the world’s finest universities...
...almost impossible to build a fully functioning iPod turntable rig. In fact, it could only be done with Apple's direct assistance, and that probably isn't a priority at the moment. I don't fault Numark; this product comes from the makers of some of the finest DJ equipment in the world. It's just important for you to know that it's not exactly what you might think...
...Brisbane, Australia, Saines' former boss at the Queensland Art Gallery, Doug Hall, is keenly watching what the Kiwis are doing. Since becoming director in 1987, Hall began "a policy shift that took our gaze north and east," he says. Not only has he amassed one of the world's finest collections of modern Asian and Pacific art but, as of August next year, he will have a glassy new gallery in addition to the current one to display it in. Hall describes the $82 million Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (200 m along the Brisbane River from...