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...years ago Asia's cities were all building cathedral-like airports; now, they must have their performing-arts palaces. Singapore has its two-year-old Esplanade complex, with a sonic environment created by the legendary American acoustician Russell Johnson, which is regarded by expert listeners as one of the best halls anywhere. In Kuala Lumpur, oil money built a stunning new hall at the base of the Petronas Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened...
...assumed that Naruhito and Masako would prefer to live like many modern European monarchs: basically as regular citizens but with nicer houses, cool crowns and invitations to all the best parties. And opinion polls indicate that most Japanese would approve of changing the laws to allow Masako's two-year-old daughter, Princess Aiko, to become Empress someday. But that doesn't seem to be the opinion of the household agency, the powerful and secretive bureaucracy that controls every facet of the royals' lives, including their finances, their (practically nonexistent) social lives and even access to their phone lines...
Jane Edwards, the director of the two-year-old Office of International Programs (OIP), is charged with figuring out how to send this greater mass of students away, and how to reintegrate them once they return...
Gillian F. Prowse—Paku’s wife and a fellow New Zealand native—said she, Paku and her two-year-old daughter would one day return to New Zealand. She said she did not feel concerned about Harvard’s large-scale investment in her country’s forests...
...When the flames neared the dwelling of Sonya Graoso, a 44-year-old housewife, she tried to flee with her daughter and two-year-old twin granddaughters. A neighbor offered her a boat to get away?for a fee she couldn't afford. Another neighbor with a boat took pity on the family, but thieves stopped them and demanded loot. "My daughter had bought new shoes?the only pair she owns?last Christmas," says Graoso. "They were snatched from...