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...plaque in the "white" room. A small hole on the opposite wall is a souvenir from a less happy historical moment, when Prussian soldiers fired on students during the uprising of 1848. The small piazza just south of the café faces onto the Palazzo del Bo, the grandest of the University of Padua's buildings. Those lucky enough to spot a small graduation procession are in for a good show. The freshly diploma'd dottore is stripped, trussed and propped on a bench. He must then deliver a long, excruciatingly embarrassing ode written by his friends. For every misread...
Harvard will get its shot at redemption on the grandest stage available. Because this year’s Frozen Four is the first to have a host school make the field, attendance records are expected to be set. The Duluth News Tribune reported a month ago that all but 1,100 two-day session passes had been purchased. The host site seats...
...problem when a singer's personal life is more interesting than her music. The lives of America's two grandest pop divas have become as scandalously compelling as an Aaron Spelling script. But their songs, as demonstrated above, have not. Carey's Charmbracelet and Houston's Just Whitney ... offer decidedly different approaches to the pop comeback; one is penitent, the other defiant. Both are letdowns...
...Baudolino (Harcourt; 522 pages), the grandest illusion of all is history, that supreme confection of myths and misunderstandings. Quite a few of them, it turns out, can be laid at the feet of Eco's resourceful Baudolino, a 12th century adventurer with a gift for fabrications that settle into the historical record. A peasant's son, the young Baudolino is brought under the loving protection of Frederick, the Holy Roman Emperor known to history as Barbarossa. As a grown man, Baudolino persuades the Emperor to give up trying to subdue the restive city-states of Italy and to journey instead...
Mass tourism dates from the 1840s, when Thomas Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately...