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...cash? The best place to start, just west of Kaiping, is the village of Zili, which has 15 blockhouses. The stately Mingshilou, built in 1925 by a family that owned a chain of general stores overseas, is now a museum; its top floor has a shrine surrounded by Roman columns. In nearby Xiangang you'll find the opulent Ruishilou, its upper floors a wedding cake of layered balconies. If you like the way the building's name looks on one of the walls, it's because the original owner had hired the province's top calligrapher, a monk from Guangzhou...
...Paris couture scene, some old masters have been reasserting their influence. Over dinner in his château outside Paris, Valentino confirmed that he and his business partner, Giancarlo Giametti, had renewed their contracts with their owners - the Italian textile group Marzotto - after rumors last season that the Roman couturier would soon retire. Last week, Valentino showed no sign of quitting anytime soon, as he showed an ever-rich collection of velvet suits beaded in jet, topaz and crystal, and point d'esprit gowns in solemn black or graphic black-and-white. Even with the newcomers in Paris this season...
...Estonia, are some 50,000 mostly handwritten pages of music and manuscripts, and 1,500 hours of unique audio and video recordings of music by the great 20th century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This cache of riches has been piling up at the apartment, home of Matsov's father, Roman, Shostakovich's favorite conductor. The works were performed and recorded against the will of Soviet bosses, who either banned Shostakovich or suspected him of "formalism" and other anti-Communist sins. The persecution is commonly thought to have succeeded in breaking him, but as the recordings prove, the composer resisted with...
DIED. CLAUDE SIMON, 91, leading figure in France's "nouveau roman," or new novel, literary movement; author of such acclaimed, stylistically challenging novels as La Route Des Flandres (The Flanders Road) in 1960; and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for literature; in Paris...
Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley and the three Roman Catholic bishops in the state are also supporting the drive to collect signatures for the petition...