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...campaign has raised $200 million,” said Debra La Morte, NYU’s senior vice president for development and alumni relations. “We are extremely hopeful about reaching our goal...
There were many skeptical eyebrows raised in 2001 when, in a bid to boost tourism, the Chinese town of Zhongdian and the surrounding region were officially renamed Shangri-La. Whether visitors are genuinely attracted by the area's claim to be the location of James Hilton's classic 1930s novel Lost Horizon, or whether they come (as they always have done) for the spectacular mountain scenery and Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects - from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors...
...towers capitalize on an ancient inclination. Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Arata Isozaki have created fantasy buildings. But where are the new, exciting projects to please the millions of people worldwide who don't like heights? I'm delighted to be living near our town's elegant modernist De La Warr Pavilion, the architectural toast of 1935. This low-rise was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff when landscape buildings were fashionable. Vertical may be victorious, but horizontal is happier. Allan Bula Bexhill on Sea, England Lingering Racism Your article "a difficult lesson" described the racism that persists...
Lara has worked tirelessly in private training and in performance after performance in everything from operas to stage plays to commercial voice-overs, and garnered more lines on her resume than could be listed. They include major roles in “Candide,” “La Cenerentola,” “Into the Woods,” and “Pirates of Penzance;” solos at Forte! and Segue! (two concerts hosted by University President Laurence H. Summers in appreciation of excellence in the arts) and with the Harlem Boys?...
...that permitted French writers to be issued temporary director’s cards. To that end, he set out to establish himself as a French man of letters: he found work as a journalist for French language publications and authored five novels in his adopted tongue. “La Permission,” a novel of an African-American soldier stationed near Paris, became the basis of “Three-Day Pass...