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...sides of the Tasman. In Auckland, it was an antiquated building at odds with the growing demand and stature of modern art - a problem embarrassingly revealed when the gallery was unable to accommodate Michael Stevenson's Trekka car from the Venice Biennale because of insufficient space. Director Saines expects visitor numbers to double to 500,000 a year when the new gallery opens in 2009. In Brisbane, says director Hall, the catalyst was government-driven "cultural diplomacy," putting the state's engagement with Asia and the Pacific into concrete form. Just last month, the gallery purchased 20 new works...
...stylish females congregate there, although they have also been observed in enclaves such as Foreign Cultures 22: La critique sociale and English 10b: Major British Writers. In a similar anomaly, there are Core classes whose ratio of athletes to meager physiques is much more advantageous than usual. A casual visitor might be deluded into believing that Harvard students actually keep in shape. No one can explain why each semester Roman Games and Shakespearean Genres are so well-attended by varsity players, though whispers about team-writing term papers do abound...
...their games against beatable Ivy competition on the road, the league slate will not be kind to Columbia this season. The Lions’ two most winnable games are the season opener under the lights at Fordham and the home opener against Duquesne. After the Dukes, the only visitor to Wien Stadium that looks manageable is Yale. An 0-2 start could easily spiral into an 0-10 finish, so it’s imperative that Columbia takes one of those two opening contests. The Lions should be able to manage that, and possibly even take a road game...
...Numbers 10 min. Time it takes to walk a full circuit of Hong Kong Disneyland, according to one visitor. Opening this week, Hong Kong's is the smallest of the Disney parks...
...where a tightrope walker nicknamed Shalimar has fallen in love with an actress named Boonyi. There is opposition to their marriage, because he is Muslim and she is Hindu; but this is Kashmir, and love triumphs over religion. Before they can have a child, however, their village gets a visitor: the American ambassador to India. Since this is a Rushdie book, he isn't just a diplomat; he's also the scion of a cultured Ashkenazi family, a hero of the French Resistance and a chum of Marlon Brando's. This is the kind of preposterous, over-laden detail that...