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With over 17,000 islands, the Indonesian archipelago has enough travel possibilities to exhaust a lifetime. But if all you can spare is a few days, consider the microcosm that is Desa Seni, desaseni.com. At this Balinese resort, the accommodation consists of 10 traditional wooden homes, offering one, two or three bedrooms each. Houses are in various ethnic styles and have been imported from different regions of Indonesia before being rebuilt and refurbished. Some are over a century old. They are laid out in the manner of a typical village, and decorated with handicrafts, antiques and paintings from all over...
...Rocky Horror Picture Show” for their image. Viglione, however, began drumming when he was five, inspired by his father, who was a drummer and carpenter. Although not a college graduate himself, Viglione is no stranger to Harvard or to speaking for college students. In his spare time, Viglione has been giving workshops at both high schools and colleges to inspire a next generation of musicians. This was the second workshop Viglione has held at Harvard in under a year. At the first, he participated in a panel discussion on “The Onion Cellar...
...military action, police action or "freedom fight" abroad. If we think we understand enough about a nation to know what is best for it, then we ought to be able to look its ordinary citizens straight in the eyes before killing them for their own good. And please spare those people speeches about how it is only their government we hate, not them. If the whole world operated by that standard, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Britain and President George W. Bush's U.S. would have been invaded a good four years ago. Alice Pfeifer Hays, Kansas...
...heartthrob from “Love Actually,” and the director of a “Dawn of the Dead” remake to walk into a room together, except perhaps to begin the kind of joke that movie nerds like to make up in their spare time. Yet somehow, such a meeting happened not once, but many times over several months.Though lighthearted at times, the result of those meetings—a film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel “300”—can hardly be considered a joke...
...dying - and broke. the declining writer was taken in by the proprietor of the Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris' Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, who tried to make him comfortable, plied him with Courvoisier and tolerated his snowballing bill. But Wilde still didn't spare his room's decor; he wryly observed that "my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." The wallpaper won that battle - Wilde died a month later of meningitis, on Nov. 30, 1900 - but it didn...