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...Taiwan's tourism industry. Tourism bureau official Philip Chao says the Chinese are pretty big spenders, averaging nearly $300 a day, just shy of the Japanese who spend over $300. And, he says, tourism is the ideal starting point to renew mutual understanding. At the Sun Yat Sen Memorial gift shop, the clerk who encounters many Chinese tourists during her day there described the mood to be like a family reunion. "We should have done this a long time ago. We are the same blood," the clerk, who declined to give her name, said. "Politics does not need...
...SUNDAY: Start the morning slowly with Italian coffee and a breakfast panini at Grocer & Grind delicatessen, tel: (62-361) 730 418. Once you're awake, peruse the grocery aisle for locally made artisanal palm sugars, sea salt and coffee to take home as gifts and souvenirs. Or you can step around the corner to Jalan Oberoi and go gift-hunting in its fashion boutiques and design shops. Next, hop in a taxi and head west about 20 minutes to Echo Beach, a popular surf spot. Work up an appetite for lunch by putting the previous day's surfing lesson into...
...Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival (April 17 to 19), celebrating the gift of 1,000 trees to the city in 1976 by Japan, is a showcase of traditional Japanese dance, art and, best of all, sake...
...Ballets Russes works like “Afternoon of a Faun,” “Le Spectre de la Rose,” and a new “Le Sacre du Printemps” by celebrated contemporary choreographer Jorma Elo.Of Boston Ballet’s contributing gift, Press Director Mariel Macnaughton explained, “It’s definitely a retrospective program. The spirit of the Ballets Russes was the nature of Diaghilev’s forward thinking: being inventive and creating something new. Now we are honoring that. It’s great to look...
...Milewski. “I would go in and ask for help, and they would tell me things that I already knew.” Goodman said that in spite of the faltering economy, the budget for next year’s Rockefeller grants will not shrink, since the gift had been specifically tied to student travel. —Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached at emdussom@fas.harvard.edu...