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...shuttle back to Cambridge dissolved into chaos.According to Campus Life Committee (CLC) Chair John F. Voith ’07, organizers learned Thursday evening that the Yale Police Department (YPD) had decided to deny the UC’s shuttles permission to pick up their passengers at Phelps Gate, in the center of Yale’s campus. Instead, they would need to depart from the Yale Bowl itself, some 15 minutes’ drive from the dormitories where a significant number of students had spent Friday night. The last-minute change left stupor-sullied students scrambling between the Bowl...
...Thousand Trees, in which a similar chair, borne by 16 eunuchs, ferries Qianlong to a celebration with Torghut Mongols who kneel before him. A circle framing the portrait of Qianlong writing calligraphy on an enormous banana leaf is echoed in an intricate jade carving of a round moon gate - as well as in an architectural moon gate that separates two rooms in the exhibition. A display case of ruyi scepters is paired with a hanging scroll, The Yongzheng Emperor Admiring Flowers, in which that sovereign holds just such a symbol of power. Although the Manchus continued to rule China until...
...Hang out at a coffee shop by the Bab Al-Yaman, the city's main gate to the south, and watch men from the tribal areas wearing curved daggers and sarongs stroll past while animated Somalians in red, orange, yellow and green robes barter with customers on Ta'Izz Road, south of the gate. If you really want to be in the thick of all this life, skip the Sheraton and bed down in a hotel tower house, or fonduk. They offer basic facilities, but have incredible atmosphere and great roof-terrace views. Check out Arabia Felix...
...haggling in other markets has left you jaded, this one's a refreshing change of pace - no one hassles you to buy here. Locals are mostly indifferent to your presence; a few are curious. Hang out at a coffee shop by the Bab Al-Yaman, the city's main gate to the south, and watch men from the tribal areas wearing curved daggers and sarongs stroll past while animated Somalians in red, orange, yellow and green robes barter with customers on Ta'Izz Road, south of the gate. If you really want to be in the thick of all this...
...wake of Wyclef-gate, I was interested to read on Monday that the Undergraduate Council (UC) had voted to form the Concert Inquiry Commission to determine why the concert had not sold enough tickets (“UC to Examine Wyclef Failure,” news...