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...Quiet Cornerstone” was sponsored by the city of Cambridge, but Harvard itself has created a great deal of public art itself. The most obvious of these is tourist magnet John Harvard himself, the statue by Daniel Chester French sitting in front of University Hall. But there are others scattered about the yard, including “The Onion,” a light steel sculpture at the entrance to Pusey Library, by renowned abstract artist Alexander Calder, and “Four Piece Reclining Figure,” a bronze figural abstraction in front of Lamont library...
Washington's tourist routes are well trod, but U Street isn't playing to outsiders: it's where young, creative Washingtonians go to shake off their political straitjackets. It's also home to some of the city's richest but oft-forgotten cultural history. Back in the U Street corridor's heyday, the place to be on a Saturday night was the Lincoln Theatre. The Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes...
...wonder. The Antarctic ice is traversed by tour groups; permanent guide ropes help you up a litter-strewn Everest; and even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp of the average tourist. But before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make us see ordinary places in extraordinary ways, thereby revealing the new horizons that beckon right under...
...hours later, the drama continued across town when Yassin's sister and his fiancee, both clad head to toe in black Islamic gowns, veils and gloves and seeking revenge for Yassin's death, fired on a tourist bus heading past a medieval cemetery toward the Citadel, a major Cairo landmark. No tourist was harmed, but the two women died of apparent gunshot wounds - though police reports and eyewitness accounts failed to clarify whether they were killed in a shootout with authorities or committed suicide rather than endure capture. Police officials believe that Yassin and the women had connections to Hassan...
...wonder. The Antarctic ice is traversed by tour groups; permanent guide ropes help you up a litter-strewn Everest; and even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp of the average tourist. But before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make us see ordinary places in extraordinary ways, thereby revealing the new horizons that beckon right under...