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...dining hall, like most of above-ground Lowell, is gorgeous. With its fancy chandeliers, huge windows, yellow walls, and high ceilings, it is the perfect place to eat. When the opera comes to town (every spring), though, it gets a bit more cramped and the dining restrictions border on ridiculous—no guests allowed. It is pretty embarrassing when you show up with a non-Lowell buddy during opera season and get turned away from your own House’s dining hall. But for most of the year, Lowell is a great place to dine with friends; it?...
Score: +20 for the Grille taking Board Plus and Crimson Cash, +50 for the free food from the Masters, -16 for the sophomore sixteen, +25 for the gorgeous courtyard, -15 for the bars in the library
...those used to antique Western maps, Ricci's work - displayed here on six tall screens - is not especially beautiful. The map is densely covered not with gorgeous cartouches and drawings of unicorns, whales and horrible monsters of the land and sea but with text, including endorsements from Ricci's Chinese friends and passages naming territories ("Ka-na-ta," for example) and describing the habits of those who live there. That's how we can be sure that Ming China knew about hammocks. In parts of South America, Ricci wrote, "men sleep without beds or mattresses, but make nets of knotted...
...struggle to become an actor. He grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. The popular movies he watched in the 1960s, such as Mughal-E-Azam and Guide, were pure escape - gorgeous fantasies of epic love and tragedy. By the time he was a teenager in the 1970s, the socially conscious new wave of the 1960s - so-called parallel cinema - began to enter the mainstream, bringing Indians' everyday experiences to the big screen. Khan was transfixed. He had been an indifferent student...
...just about history, either. It's about the future. Unlike Jenny Sanford, whose actions projected the image of a smart, liberated woman about to embark on a fantastic new life, Elizabeth Edwards is fighting Stage 4 cancer. We can imagine gorgeous, heartbroken, alimoneyed Elin Nordegren fending off flocks of suitors with a 9-iron. Elizabeth, on the other hand, will be a single mother with two children in grade school and a life-threatening illness. Downer. (See the top 10 political gaffes...