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...create a year-long Khajuraho Millennium Festival; major events are tentatively planned for December. "There is no more magnificent sight than when the temples are lighted up at night and the dancers perform," says Bohnenblust invitingly. "It is as if you are transported back 1,000 years to the splendor and beauty of the Chandella kingdom...
...with real individuality. We drove through town after town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
...Letitia Davenant, wife of Thaddeus and mother of a 4 1/2-month-old daughter named Georgina. It was Letitia's inheritance that allowed her husband to refurbish his ancestral home, Quincunx House in Essex, to its former splendor. Before he married her, Thaddeus had been reduced to selling local markets the produce he grew on his property. So he is grateful to Letitia but harbors a pained secret that occurs to him again on the afternoon of her death: "It was his considerable loss, Thaddeus was every day aware, that he did not love his wife...
...Cape Town has seen worse, and a gentle city surrounded by the natural splendor of a mountain and two oceans isn't particularly prone to panic. Nelson Mandela's ANC was only ever partially successful in mobilizing residents of the notoriously lethargic city to take action against apartheid; Osama bin Laden's chances of turning Cape Town into an epicenter of global jihad are, at best, remote...
...were smarter, Elkhart, Ind. (pop. 43,627), would have been our first stop on the Summer of '98 Secret Capitals Tour. Why? Because we could have bought a motor home the size of Graceland and then cruised in prefab splendor, instead of staring moose-eyed at flight-delayed lights in airports across the land. We could have taken a band along too--Elkhart is also the band-instrument capital of the world--and turned this thing into a national polka fest...