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...returned to the campus chapel last Monday to announce, "The devil is not going to steal O.R.U." He received a standing ovation and was renamed O.R.U.'s co-president, but George Pearsons, chairman of the school's Board of Regents, seems intent on limiting his influence. "He is the founder. He is a great icon," Pearsons told The Daily Oklahoman. "But the bottom line is, any decision is going to come down to the board." The school has hired a Washington, D.C., law firm to run an independent investigation and an audit. It suggested that the professors' case could...
...world. Any bold predictions from the Brits? "If I did that, I would get shot," says Guy. As for the Americans, no handicap will hinder their hubris. "We're going to set an example right away for the [American] PGA Tour guys," says Alan Gentry, the North American co-founder. "They're going to have no other choice but to follow suit." That almost sounds like a guarantee. Says a smiling Gentry: "Absolutely...
...whole ethos is that luxury travel is about having experiences," says James Jayasundera, founder of Ampersand Travel in London, which specializes in customized tours of the Indian subcontinent. Paradoxically, in a country with 1.1 billion people, it can be tricky for visitors to truly connect with even one or two natives. "Traveling by train for short distances has always been a good way for foreigners to engage locals," he says. "Now there are a lot of small hotels run by absolutely fascinating people where guests mingle, sometimes eat together. These are also the best places for meeting upwardly mobile Indians...
...weekend. The program featured discussions with Berensohn, a philosopher and so-called “deep ecologist” at the Penland School of Crafts, as well as performances by Christine Dakin, artistic director laureate of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Rachel A. Cohen ’96, founder of the performance company Racoco Productions. The interdisciplinary program exposed potters and dancers to each others’ artistic experience. As David J. Tischfield ’09, a ceramicist who runs the Quincy Pottery Studio, put it, “I took away an appreciation for abstract dance...
...existing repertoire, so we are playing mostly brand new songs. For Asian instruments, it’s one of the first attempts to try this.”PLAYING A RUBBER BAND“Each one has a distinctive character,” says Jocelyn Clark, the founder of IIIZ+, of the zithers. “What I like about the zither compared to, for instance, the harp, which is a very beautiful instrument, is the ability to make ornaments. The string goes the length of the instrument and you can pluck with your right hand and create ornaments with...