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...year-old Istanbul is used to comebacks, and today the city is enjoying a massive revival, thanks to a deft mix of old and new. Driving toward the city center from the new airport, you pass through 5th century walls built by Emperor Theodosius II. Downtown, Roman, Byzantine and Otto-man ruins jostle next to trendy clubs and restaurants. Just around the corner from a five-star hotel is one of the city's cacophonous street markets. For most Turks, Istanbul will always be the capital. The port city boasts Turkey's best arts, culture and entertainment. Since the 1980s...
...shops. This small area is jam-packed with wonders and best explored on foot. Until recently, many treasures were locked away or poorly exhibited. But the city's museums are improving. Topkapi Palace contains carpets, jewels, ceramics and other imperial items. The Archaeology Museum next door houses important Roman and Byzantine artifacts. Also not to be missed are the nearby Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts and the Byzantine mosaics in the former church at Kariye, among the finest surviving examples of this art form. A short walk across the Galata Bridge to Taksim Square brings you into the bustling...
...Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina and one of the main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian Serb troops co-operated with Yugoslav army units - evidence that could be used to help secure the conviction of former President Slobodan Milosevic. BELARUS My God Is Your God The Senate approved a bill that would restrict...
...converted into a small museum commemorating her work as an actress and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. The sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti, who run the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, also donated family photographs, original film posters, the best-actress Oscar that Hepburn won in 1953 for Roman Holiday, and other memorabilia. Opened in October 1996 and staffed by volunteers, the museum immediately began attracting thousands of visitors from around the world. Busloads of tourists snapping pictures of Hepburn's grave and home - which is now owned by another family - became as much a part of the sleepy village...
...every summer class is like this, to be sure; I was able to find, for instance, a class on the Roman poets Catullus and Horace that was taught by a Harvard professor, and closely followed the syllabus of the course on Catullus and Horace taught annually by the department during the regular academic year. But it was the exception, and not the rule, in the Harvard Summer School catalog...