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...serves South African wine. The hotel's d?cor reflects its history: the honeymoon suite's marble bath was salvaged from the captain's quarters of a 19th century French corvette, and the restaurant's stone fireplace bears the official stamp of French architect Gustave Eiffel. But it is the garden, set in a 300-hectare rain-forest nature park, that dazzles. Here you can find 45 species of birds, boa constrictors and a giant tortoise called Galileo. "If I'd told Karl-Heinz I wanted a hotel with waterfalls, lemurs and a view of the sea, he'd have said...
...Rusesabagina’s memoir, “An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography,” earlier this month by Viking Press. The greatly-anticipated event sold out late Saturday afternoon, according to a Harvard Book Store employee, and a line stretched from the church to the corner of Garden Street and Mass. Ave. 40 minutes before the event’s start. During his talk, Rusesabagina compared the Rwanda of 1994 to the current situation in Darfur. “It’s exactly the same, and again the whole world stands by, watches, and doesn?...
...Fly’s grounds that most remind me of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” They are considerably smaller than Gatsby’s 40 acres to be sure, but there’s that blue garden out the back, fenced (white) below a pink tree. Come springtime, awnings are raised, and the men and girls come and go like moths among—as Fitzgerald put it—the champagne and the stars...
...Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki-a gelatin silver print that darkly conveys the force of the atomic bomb that had devastated the city in 1945. The stark Prostitute, Nagoya conjures up the seedier underbelly of the mid-century boom years. Later images-like the strange, wriggling creatures of Ruinous Garden, or the rusting steel of the series Scrapped Boat, Nagasaki-are more abstract and puzzling, as if mirroring the confusion and disillusionment that took hold when the boom turned to bust. Poised between the horrors of its past and the possibilities of its future, modern Japan has been a society...
...three-family building, he'd leaned over his balcony rail to tell me it wasn't safe and that I should come up. Sure enough, minutes later, five protesters sprint around the corner to his street and try to leap a barbed wire fence into an onion garden, quickly followed by 13 Nepalese riot police in full battle gear. One of the fleeing demonstrators, with a student's lanky hair and in a white shirt, catches the bottom of his jeans on the wire and falls, tangled, to the floor. Seven or eight of the police, crowding in, start...