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...picturesque streets and quaint customs made the place indelible in the annals of travel. Sadly, it was largely destroyed by foreign invaders in 1985 and rebuilt as an efficient, soulless resort destination. Morris' latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav, helpfully reprints the entire 200-odd-page Last Letters from Hav before moving smoothly to its sequel, which describes the new Hav in all its globalized, deracinated glory. Hav's transformation is "a paradigm of our 21st century zeitgeist," Morris writes with the sadness of someone old enough to know how delightfully diverse the world used...
...said the place made them queasy. Then the visitors came. As they climbed to the upper floors of the titanium-and-granite-clad structure, which echoes the silhouette of the Rockies, some began feeling dizzy and nauseated. The likely culprits: a plunging 100-ft. atrium and walls slanted at odd angles. "If you have walls tilting toward or away from you, that disrupts people's balance," says University of Colorado architecture professor Taisto Makela. Of the 11 students he recently took to the museum, three felt dizzy...
Starbucks fancies itself a small company, which might ring a little odd, considering that the coffee giant is regularly parodied as being practically unavoidable. Well, the joke is only going to get funnier as the Seattle firm, with its shareholders clearly in mind, gets even bigger, selling more stuff, from hot food to hot music, in more places than ever before. Right now Big Green runs 12,440 locations worldwide, but the goal is 40,000, which would trump even McDonald...
...Vaughn and caught Kessler unable to make the adjustment.“Our defensemen played it really well,” Chu said. “We are going to get into situations when you play aggressively that you give up 2-on-1’s or odd-man rushes at times. It was unlucky when she made a good step on the play. It redirected off her stick.”From the first intermission until overtime, the Wildcats took control for large stretches at a time. They peppered Kessler with 25 shots in those two periods, versus...
...said. “But I didn’t even know it.”But despite the lack of notoriety, these players have taken full advantage of the opportunity to play in Lavietes—Harvard’s biggest stage. And although the crowd of seventy-odd fans is not present, the scout team still relishes the chance to be a part of Harvard basketball in any way.“The huge commitment is not there, but we get to play in the main gym, get after it two times a week,” Boswell...