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...fabulous monuments. Its three most famous destinations-the pink city of Jaipur, the blue city of Jodhpur and the lake city of Udaipur-teem with hidden delights, from bustling local markets to old observatories to tranquil gardens. Further afield, ancient holy towns like Ajmer and Pushkar afford winding urban explorations and peaceful lake views with fewer touts and tourists in the way. The golden city of Jaisalmer, with its Persian-inspired villas and trains of camel caravans, rises out of the desert like a hallucination from The Arabian Nights. Some of India's last remaining great tigers prowl the forests...
...degree she receives tomorrow. “I’ll probably spend most of my life not telling people I have it,” she says. “I came to Harvard to get legitimacy. But it deligitimizes me.” The special concentrator in urban planning has two paths laid out in front of her. Down one is another multi-million-dollar elite institution, Oxford University, where she would earn a second degree in African Studies. The other leads to the New Left Review, a leftist theory publication in London. She is undecided...
...since come to embrace her name and the cultural identity attached to it. Leng, known as “Tech” among her friends, will travel to Cambodia next year under the George Peabody Gardner fellowship. Her tentative plans involve working for a non-profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools” to market the silk-weaving they produce, Leng says. Her post-graduate goals reflect two interests deepened at Harvard: her Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives—moved to Massachusetts a year before...
Above all, both men were giving a lot of thought to the potential of the new building to bring life to Bloor Street, Toronto's main upscale shopping drag. "It was very important to us to see this as an urban project, not just an institutional one," says Thorsell, a former editor in chief of the Globe and Mail who wanted to bring the museum into the wider world he was accustomed to. "The old ROM had its elbows up high against the city; it was a big no. I wanted transparency and engagement on Bloor Street, a major urban...
...city. He tapped longtime LAPD critic and civil rights lawyer Constance Rice to write a report on the Rampart scandal and to oversee compliance with her recommended reforms. He's also developed a friendship with the Police Commission President John Mack, who, as head of the L.A. Urban League, was long a thorn in LAPD's side. "I like to bring lots of people into the tent who have historically been outside, as a way to break down the insularity and isolation this organization has been known...