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...Harvard students should read this collection, value their experiences here and document them,” says Sullivan. “What’s scandalous today becomes quaint and humorous later...
Students leaving foreign locales for Cambridge have long dealt with a disappointing drop in the number of transportation options open to them. Tokyo’s longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas...
...jazz concerts to history classes. And Via Garibaldi, which housed the noble families of what was once one of Europe's richest cities, has undergone a multimillion-euro face-lift that would make Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi proud. Fa?ades have been scrubbed and frescoes restored to their original splendor, quaint courtyards and sweeping staircases now shine anew, streetlights have been added to enhance the architectural features, and busts and statues have been tucked into the palaces' endless niches. Get lost here and feel yourself spinning back to an age of true opulence. And when hunger interrupts your fantasia...
...history classes. And Via Garibaldi, which housed the noble families of what was once one of Europe's richest cities, has undergone a multi-million-euro face-lift that would make Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi proud. Façades have been scrubbed and frescoes restored to their original splendor, quaint courtyards and sweeping staircases now shine anew and streetlights have been added to enhance the architectural features, busts and statues tucked into the palaces' endless niches. Get lost here and feel yourself spinning back to an age of true opulence. And when hunger interrupts your fantasia, go to Le Cantine...
...Come on, Aussie, come on? era of Super Tests and colorful clothing, he became a drawcard for Australian fans. Hookes walked onto the ground with a simple plan: to entertain and give value to the punters who had paid $5 to come to the ground. That may sound quaint nowadays, but back then sincerity could not be faked in front of the zinc-creamed kids who packed the country?s pulsating sports arenas. Or the TV viewers in its lounge rooms. As cricket began transforming television, the beer-heads at home with a tinny in their hands yearned...