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...With its surfeit of Oscars, Lord of the Rings has done more for New Zealand than any tourism campaign. Thankfully, there's plenty of the country's dreamscape left for those who want wide-screen scenery but don't care for Middle Earth hype. Base yourself in one of New Zealand's charming lodges and leave Hollywood behind...
Blair’s more substantial allegations of misdeeds at the Times—including a serious charge of widespread dateline fraud—are not likely to raise the right eyebrows, given the source. But Blair’s memoir, though doomed from the start, is a surfeit of fascinating concepts and compelling narrative which displays the talent that once served him so well at The Times. Too bad, then, that the author is unemployed—and unbelievable...
Milan already has a healthy surfeit of cachet, so the opening of the Park Hyatt, just steps away from the Piazza del Duomo, will probably raise few eyebrows among the well-heeled residents of Italy's fashion capital. Everyone else, though, will be pleasantly gob-smacked by this superspiffy 117-room property...
...this, and a surfeit of dangerous drinking, Harvard’s social culture shares with universities nationwide. The unique bipolarity of our campus’s social scene, however, takes root in the very traits that Harvard’s selective admissions process encourages. Many students who survive Byerly Hall owe their success to their unrelenting superegos, flogging them onward towards ever more precocious achievement. Torn between an exceptionality they love and a normalcy few others will acknowledge, Harvard students find themselves attracted to a manic social scene that is stodgy by week and unmoored by weekend. Dr. Perfection...
...more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn't be missed. For classy aperitifs among a crowd of Dublin's young shovers and makers, there is the sprawling, magnificent Café en Seine, tel: (353-1) 677 4567. Decked out like a debauched fantasy of late 19th century Paris, this...