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...famed Bamiyan buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, is mysteriously covered by a huge cloth, with only its giant feet poking out. When tourists try to approach the statue, security guards shoo them away. Instead, would-be guides shove pictures of the park's lesser draws under the few visitors' noses?perhaps a tour of a couple of fake, mildewy buddhas or a trip to a viewing pavilion that looks out on nothing much? Asked when the Bamiyan lookalike might be open to the public, one guide says, "Maybe this year, maybe next. Who knows...
Subtleties of interpretation thus play a lesser role, especially when the music serves to accompany another work. Hence, the Pops Orchestra’s unpolished performance was of little consequence to the concert, which was a welcome change of pace...
...American career opportunities are magnified, of course, by the instant foot-in-the-door that a Harvard degree offers. “Harvard, by the nature of being one of the better institutions, gives you more opportunities to stay [in the U.S.], whereas lesser schools don’t provide as many opportunities for jobs and might make it harder to stay here,” Saigal says...
...complain because I doubt Libeskind. In making its decision on what should replace the twinned frailties of emptiness and memory which confront us in the void where the Twin Towers stood, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has surely chosen the lesser evil. It is fitting that the garish skeletal frames of the towers that the THINK team proposed have been dismissed. They were a foolish piece of constructivist hyperbole—an ecstatic vertical jungle gym obscuring their funereal base...
Unlike last year’s lesser known honoree, actor Blair Underwood, Queen Latifah is a return to the big-name host for the show, which in the past has chosen Jackie Chan, Will Smith, Halle Berry and Matt Damon ’92 as hosts...