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Weaving is a simple, sedentary activity--you just sit at a loom and pull the weft through the warp--right? Wrong. It's complex, strenuous and, Navajo weavers say, mystical. "Weaving is your thought," says Pearl Sunrise, who teaches a $355, five-day workshop at the Taos Institute of Arts in New Mexico. "You need to use your motor skills, your psychological being and your spirituality." Emily Hyatt of North Carolina has been weaving all her life and has a business educating schoolchildren about the history of the craft. But in Pearl's class she was a beginner again. Previously...
...golden throats of Harvard, male at least, none of these concerns holds any water. Fall auditions draw more than 60 would-be Kroks, and over a five-day span, the group eventually whittles the pool down to five whom they will actually take, showing up at dawn to induct the new boys. The allure of the slick tuxedoes, carefully placed hair and jazzy chords brings them out in droves. The Kroks rise to the occasion, arriving in suits to each round of auditions, setting up a veritable shrine to themselves in a side room in which the audtioners wait their...
This is not to say that excess is unavailable. Goodwood Travel in Canterbury, England, promises to "rekindle memories of the Imperial days of the Tsars" with a five-day, $5,520 trip from London to St. Petersburg capped by a New Year's Eve Millennium Tsar's Ball (19th century costumes not included) at the gilded Great Hall in the Pushkin Palace...
Moreover, to help ease some of the parking problems associated with the process, Director of Transportation Services John W. Nolan estimated that his office spent about $2,500 to secure extra parking during the four or five-day moving period...
Over the last few weeks he has been writing theBaccalaureate, Commencement and reunion speeches.Over a recent five-day period, he says, "I simplywrote from...