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...INDIA THE PALACE ON WHEELS This eight-day round-trip adventure begins in Delhi, taking you to the Rajasthani palaces of Jaipur and Udaipur, the fortresses at Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and the Taj Mahal in Agra. The 14 coaches of the train?each of them lavishly decorated with silk and velvet fittings?are named after former Rajput states. It's a train ride, luxury holiday and history lesson all rolled into one?and a bargain at $395 per night...
...states, too, few chief ministers are untarnished by scandal. Perhaps most notorious today is Mayawati, who resigned in August as chief minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, to fight charges that her freewheeling administration threatened to undermine the very foundations of the country's national symbol, the Taj Mahal. According to charges drawn up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mayawati and others in the state government flouted rules on the environment and competitive tendering in their plans for a $60 million tourist mall, positioned uncomfortably close behind the marble mausoleum. The construction required the Yamuna River...
...Lucky Girls are drawn from her experiences living among Americans in Asia. In the title story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view of something everyone in the world has seen a thousand times." In The Orphan, Alice muses that Bangkok is "like a dream of Los Angeles," which at the same time "reminds her of the Mexican Day of the Dead." The loose anarchy of every visitor...
...many memories they share of Harvard made coming back exciting for both of them. When Tonika was accepted at the Business School and Taj at the Law School, they applied to be tutors in the House system. “It [was] like returning to our roots,” Taj says. Faced with offers from Adams, Winthrop and Quincy, the two ultimately decided on “The People’s House” because of its warm and welcoming environment. They will bring to Quincy House their outgoing friendliness and—to the delight of many...
...those Harvard students in despair about finding love at a place where people often choose homework over love, Taj and Tonika are a “fairy-tale story” come to life. Bernard captured its appeal as he described his own feelings at their wedding. “If you ever had doubts about true love,” Bernard says “you’d throw all those out the window...