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...visitors' center offers audio guides, and next summer guests will be able to take illuminated evening walks. The restoration, which includes the replanting of tree and shrub species from Rivarola's original garden, will continue for at least another year. Villa Gregoriana is once again worthy of the most splendid of Grand Tours. tel: (39-06) 3996 7701; www.pierreci.it
...visitors' center offers audio guides, and next summer guests will be able to take illuminated evening walks. The restoration, which includes the replanting of tree and shrub species from Rivarola's original garden, will continue for at least another year. Villa Gregoriana is once again worthy of the most splendid of Grand Tours. tel: (39-06) 3996 7701; www. pierreci.it
...whom live nowhere near the beach. But on lovely weekends, the locals, many of them as beautiful as movie stars, come down from the hills for a family stroll on the seaside Croisette. They pack the public beaches to get an early start on their suntans. And as a splendid May afternoon wanes and time nears for the Film Festival's first evening show, les Cannoises stand behind barriers to watch the chosen film's celebs emerge from limos and mount the 24 red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais...
Class Day is the one respite from the splendid Harvardian pretension of our graduation ceremonies. Through its undue influence, the administration has changed the nature of this important event. We look forward to Tim Russert’s address, but trust that the administration will return to Class Day its right to self-determination...
...Vietnam's relentless modernization means there are increasingly fewer opportunities to step back into the country's past. But the splendid Café Tung, tel: (84-63) 821 390, is an exception. With its retro skai-covered sofas and Jacques Brel posters, it looks more like a 1960s Parisian cellar than a coffee shop in the present-day Central Highlands town of Dalat. Not that there are any complaints from the clientele, who comprise a fair slice of Dalat's artists and intellectuals (the town is Vietnam's pre-eminent bohemian enclave). From early morning, they gather to read...