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...person, Lahiri is almost as reserved as she is on the page. She is tall and slender and stands very straight, with a silk scarf tied around her neck, much too elegant for the chain coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she is being interviewed. Lahiri speaks quietly and deliberately, vouchsafing only the occasional smile. She orders nothing...
Falling trade barriers with the West have also reinvigorated some of Turkey's ancient trade centers. In the old Silk Road city of Kayseri, formerly Caesarea, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Ankara, some 400 factories producing everything from electric cables to blue jeans have sprung up in the past several years. Exports from that city and its sister "Anatolian tigers," as Turks call the industrial hubs of the central part of the country, have doubled since 2002. "We will take care of Europe in its old age," jokes Mustafa Boydak, head of Kayseri's Chamber of Commerce, citing Turkey...
...Cello Masters scholarship to Julliard who has worked with such famous musicians as Ethzak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma ’76, and Harvard professor Robert Levin. Yu says that she has had wonderful encounters with all of these artists, highlighting time spent with Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble as one of her most influential experiences.“Everyone was so friendly and so interested in what you have to say as a musician, and so passionate about bringing different kinds of music together—celebrating the western traditions versus the eastern traditions...
...Commencement ceremony, the day was rained out. Stendahl was bestowed the responsibility of deciding which of the students were going to be able to fit inside Sanders Theatre, Gomes said. “With great humor, he drew names out of his hat—he wore a tall silk hat like Abraham Lincoln,” Gomes said. “It bound us to him. When I went to see him just last Saturday...I asked him ‘Do you remember our Commencement?’ He smiled broadly—clearly...
...great price on a rug that doesn't fit in your apartment, you're still a sucker. Early on, I decided that I much prefer simple, single-knot tribal rugs that have a homespun quality to them, as opposed to the grand, Persian, double-knot silk carpets that go well in a living room full of ivory elephant tusks. This may mean my tastes aren't very elevated, but it has saved me a lot of money...