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...Themed holiday villages don't always work, but Desa Seni-located amid rice farms in Canggu, a corner of Bali known for its bucolic tranquility-isn't as contrived as you would expect. Founders Howard Klein and Tom Talucci have lived in Indonesia for over 10 years, and have traveled its islands extensively. The insights they have garnered, as well as their evident good taste, lend the resort an unaffected charm. "We always wondered why no one replicated what it's like to live a village lifestyle," says Klein, before laughingly admitting that having 80 satellite-TV channels in every...
...high school principal to bark out questions (Who shops online?) and commands (Don't forget to turn off the conference-room lights). On one of his first days, Drexler got on the horn and asked for whoever was in charge of fit to come to his office, a corner blocked off by cubicle partitions. Twenty-five people showed up--with 25 ideas about how garments should hang. "Now I understand the problem," he said. As he recently explained, "In any business, there has to be a vision...
...Allston location.ACROSS THE RIVERAlthough the renovation of HUAM’s building on Quincy Street is still early in the conceptual stages, HUAM officials confirm that Renzo Piano will spearhead the renovation.The cornerstone of the new HUAM will be a cultural center on Barry’s Corner in Allston, designed by architect Kevin Daly. The building will house all three museums until the Fogg is ready to reopen its doors, a date HUAM spokesman Daron Manoogian estimates as sometime in 2013.However, not all of the art will return to Cambridge. As the rejected 1998 plans testify, HUAM?...
Every year, some 3,000 delegates from every corner of China converge on Beijing for a two-week meeting of the National People's Congress, the country's legislature. The meeting is largely a sham: Although the delegates are "elected," candidates have to be approved by the ruling Communist Party, meaning that despite the occasional hiccup, the NPC passes laws required by the Party leadership. Still, although it's an exercise in pretend democracy - or maybe precisely because it is that - China's government marks the occasion with considerable pomp and ceremony, scores of scarlet banners rippling in the breeze...
With ’Nochs right around the corner, why would any Harvard student call up Papa John’s? “Having pizza delivered right to your dorm room is so nice,” McGugan says. Granted our drunken munchies can stand the forty-five minute wait...