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...head of Medusa the Gorgon. A visit to the town of Ouarzazate, on the mountains' edge and 400 km outside Marrakech, might lead to you to believe that Atlas survived and that the giant is now amassing a collection of supersized toys. Roman amphitheaters, Tibetan temples and Egyptian sphinxes tower over the arid terrain, left behind at the appropriately named Atlas Studios by crews working on films including Kingdom of Heaven, Kundun and Gladiator. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits...
Alex Slack ’06 is a former editorial chair and history concentrator in a part of Leverett G-Tower overlooking the grad housing construction site. As soon as he gets a good night’s sleep, his column “Peripheral Vision” will cover local issues just beyond the purview of the average Harvard student. Look both ways, and find his column on alternate Mondays...
...description of its architectural phases, succinct sketches of virtually every interesting monument in the city, dozens of black-and-white photos and plenty of practical getting-around advice. The loving descriptions will help the reader explore world-famous monuments like the Qutb Minar, a magnificent 800-year-old tower, the Lodi tombs and mosques, and lesser-known marvels such as the Jamali Kamali, the tomb of a 16th century poet and his companion. Spanning from the Middle Ages through the British Raj to the present, the book shows how Delhi accumulated history like geological strata. So, following Peck's road...
...balloon, pictured here, flies freely over the spires and stupas (balloonsoverbagan.com). It is able to do so because Bagan has been refused World Heritage status as a result of ham-fisted attempts made to restore some of its ancient structures with modern materials. Other developments, including an unsightly viewing tower and a nearby golf course, have also been controversial. Perhaps it's just as well that their impact is diminished when seen from the sky. Bagan's beauty is undeniable during these spectacular, 45-minute flights...
...National Guard Association in Washington, Bush revealed new details about a foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian and two Southeast Asian countries had helped arrest all four cell leaders planning the attack, which was designed as a follow up to 9/11 and originally revealed...