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...crazy new flavors. One of his favorite mixes is bourbon and apple, which sounds straightforward enough until he tells you how he distills the Maker's Mark, removing the oaky bitterness so it won't overpower the juice, which, by the way, he presses from an obscure line of British apples developed in the 18th century...
Museum professionals have counterarguments. Some places--think of the Met, the Louvre or the National Gallery in London--are "universal museums," worth cherishing precisely because they permanently display the works of many cultures side by side. Neil MacGregor is the director of the British Museum, founded in 1753 as the first and now one of the greatest of those. "The idea," he says, "of having in one building things from the whole world, there for free, is just as important now as it was 250 years...
...much of it. "A translation of the imperialism of the 19th century to the globalization of the 20th century" is what he calls the concept, and his view counts. Pandermalis is president of the organization behind the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, conceived as a standing rebuke to the British Museum's continued possession of the most passionately disputed cultural property of them all, the 5th century B.C. Elgin Marbles. Those are carvings taken from the Parthenon in the early 19th century at the direction of Lord Elgin, who was then British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Together the Elgins...
...Museum is an ingenious part of their lengthy campaign to retrieve them. It will display the Greek portions of the Parthenon frieze side by side with pale plaster copies of the portions in London, like empty chairs at a banquet table. Meanwhile, the Greeks have also proposed that the British Museum might simply lend them the Elgin Marbles for the official opening of the museum later this year. There's just one problem. The British Museum insists that Greece must first recognize, formally, that the marbles are its property. "The conversation," says MacGregor, "cannot even begin until that has happened...
...then that day they come in and tell you who gets it.” According to the scholarship’s official website, applicants must possess a combination of leadership skills, sound character, as well as academic and athletic success as expressed in the will of the British colonial pioneer and statesman Cecil J. Rhodes.But according to Blattler, applicants don’t necessarily have to be involved in organized sports.“I think the quote is ‘physical vigor’ or something like that,” Blattler joked...