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...stop at shops featuring handicrafts, antiques and trendy clothes along the hutong, or lane, leading up to Yinding Bridge, before enjoying some authentic Vietnamese cuisine at Nuage, tel: (86-10) 6401 9581. This restaurant club has a stunning view of the lake area and the nearby ancient Drum Tower, which was built in 1420 and used to signal the time during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. For after-dinner cocktails, the Alpha Omega Club, tel: (86-10) 6612 9898 is on the west bank of Shichahai and within walking distance of Nuage. A pop cover band plays...
...Black Men’s Forum President (and resident of the Pfoho Bell Tower, a famed party suite) Barnhill agrees. “As a student receiving a large part of financial aid,” he says, “the party grants enabled a positive social atmosphere on campus where socializing became less of an economic burden...
...expectations. RIGHT TO WRITE King did add some hope and praise for his colleagues, though. “People who write short stories are gunslingers,” King said, possibly referencing The Gunslinger, star of his magnum opus book-cycle, “The Dark Tower.” “We’re out on our own, freelancers, soldiers for hire.” “We don’t need a happy ending if we don’t want it,” he added. As for advice for young writers...
...These are issues that will put the E.U. to test," said one E.U. diplomat in Lisbon, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "They will make much of the discussions here seem like a trivial, academic exercise taking place in an ivory tower...
...Thursday in the English seaside town of Whitehaven, a transmitter tower that had broadcast British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programs to analog television sets since the 1950s switched off. The abrupt blackening was the first part of a nationwide program to make British television entirely digital...