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Looking back over delay the Library has encountered mainly because of the choice of an urban location, it is easy to speculate that the Library would have been better off in a suburban setting, with plenty of parking and picnic grounds. Yet somehow, isolating Kennedy away from people's lives, making the Library a day-trip into the country, would be a less fitting memorial than a complex situated in Cambridge...
...swim with elephants and lavish rooms make for a high-end ride. For the ultimate experience, stay at the park's five-star Camp Jubalani ($880 per person per night). All elephant safaris here are free and include a four-hour trek, with a stop for a bush picnic as well as a magical nighttime ride; guests are armed with powerful spotlights to catch game from atop their lumbering pachyderms (www.kapama.co.za...
...librarian, Boorstin tried to make the world’s largest library more attractive to the public. Under his direction, the library installed picnic tables and benches and established a center to encourage reading. He held the post until 1987, when he resigned to focus on his passion: writing about history...
...regularly with the Impressionists, their matter-of-fact imagery, their art of the moment, was exactly unsuited to his aspirations toward an art of classical weight. The gravity of the Egyptian statuary and Hindu stone carvings he loved, their sense of eternity, was not to be found in the picnic scenes that beguiled Monet and Renoir. Even in France, Gauguin had ventured in search of locales in which day-to-day life might still show glimpses of ancient mystery. For a while, the peasant villages of Brittany served as his nearby version of the faraway...
Next to the alternatives, Camp Four is paradise. Real, colored prayer rugs, thicker mattresses, pillows even, and soccer shoes. Pure-white clothes instead of glaring catch-me-you-if-you-can orange. A librarian comes around with books, and lunch is on picnic tables, family style. This is where the prisoners get to come if they are good, meaning well behaved and fruitful in their interrogations. "We try to sell this place," says Army Colonel Jerry Cannon, a National Guard member who in his other life is the sheriff of Kalkaska County, Mich. Military interrogators mention Camp Four...