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Straddling 2 sq km of verdant gardens and farmland, much of it a former lordly estate, the park boasts several galleries and a stunning outdoor collection of modern sculpture, including some fine Barbara Hepworths and Henry Moores. It's also home to 137 sheep, for whom Goldsworthy has built a sheepfold contain-ing a massive stone slab on which human visitors can lie to create "rain shadows." Else-where on the estate he has raised a series of dry-stone wall enclosures where giant fallen oaks hang. Paradoxically, for all the open air, it's Goldsworthy's new indoor works...
...down nearby, thanks to a pair of upmarket hotels. The Courtyard by Marriott Düsseldorf Hafen, tel: (49-211) 49390, houses Julian's Bar, with its red chaise longues and fat leather sofas, which is a popular spot for predinner drinks. Milanese architect Matteo Thun's modern masterpiece, the Radisson SAS Media Harbour Hotel, www.radisson.com/dusseldorfde_harbour, is done up with a sleek Brazilian slate facade, features an outstanding health club and spa and another of the neighborhood's standout restaurants, Amano, www.amano-medienhafen.de. In MedienHafen, there's no shortage of good food - or a good time...
...program should instead just present the facts straight. Freshmen aren’t stupid. We don’t need to hear simplistic modern-day fairytales-gone-wrong before we can make decisions about our own health...
...there is no bottom to the barrel of radio’s lurid modern history; purveyors of still more odious dross regularly garner more success than Mr. Imus. Take the example of his longtime rival and colleague Howard Stern, who inked a 500 million dollar contract with Sirius Radio for five years of gallivanting with porn stars and teasing a handicapped man he calls “Gary the Retard.” Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh made his name when he referred to the NFL as “the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons...
...have only ourselves to blame for these sterling examples of modern minstrelsy—and we know it: What other reason for the self-righteous tone of our “outrage” over the Rutgers incident, and our silence on so many others? With each progressive volley against Imus’s comes an equally adamant “not I!” So either we let our outrage translate into a genuine turn towards higher-minded discourse, or we should stop all the preaching...