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...private path means guests can escape the crowds that often mar enjoyment of the wall's other sections. There are no chairlifts or souvenir stalls here, just heated suites made from local stone and beams salvaged from some of Beijing's demolished courtyard homes. Rooms are decorated with Manchurian, Mongolian and Tibetan antiques, and each has a private porch. The Tiger Bar provides the perfect setting for cigars and cognac, while the restaurant offers cuisine inspired by Genghis Khan, whom the menu quotes: "The greatest pleasure in life is to defeat your enemy, then ride his horses, drink his wine...
...seems that Jonathan Hanover brought the wrong mindset and pair of ears to the March 19 Mozart Society Orchestra concert (“Bartosik Shines in MSO,” Arts, Mar. 21). While I appreciate his abilities to discern intonation and ensemble problems, the relentless disparaging of the orchestra’s performance was not only unrepresentative of the evening but also undermined individual musicians’ hard work and the entire ensemble’s pride in the organization. The MSO provided a powerful and exciting performance of a very substantial program. There were technical problems...
Your editorial “AP-ing the News” (Mar. 21) violates a basic journalistic principle: you erroneously take the Associated Press to task for violating a basic principle of our journalism without even bothering to call us for comment. Our new “optional lead” initiative to provide newspapers with an additional way to compete for readers is rooted in a basic tenet of AP journalism: impartiality. You equate different styles of writing a spot news story with changing the facts. Facts remain the same. Objective journalistic styles for writing facts are myriad...
After reading the editorial “Our Lack of Confidence” (Mar. 25), I was dismayed at the collective ignorance of The Crimson Staff in regards to the Graduate Student Council (GSC), the recent GSC poll about University President Lawrence H. Summers, and the Harvard graduate student experience in general...
What is important is not that the recent attacks on the President of Harvard (“Lack of Confidence,” News, Mar. 16) are damaging to him, but that they are damaging to Harvard. The noisy faculty members dissatisfied with the administration were not hired to run the university but to teach and research. If they have their parochial self-interests, let them deal with the issues rather than personalities. If faculty members, tenured or not, don’t like the way that the President and Corporation are leading Harvard—and they are unable...