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...online for that show's 18,000 tickets, crashing the arena's website (which goes to show that online, the O2 still has some way to go in terms of dealing with expectations). Other upcoming big draws include Bruce Springsteen, the long awaited return of the Spice Girls, (whose tour sold out in 38 seconds) and Kanye West...
...raves about Devi Garh, an 18th century fort in Rajasthan, a short hop from Udaipur, with 39 suites featuring mod interiors, and gets so excited talking about Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh--a region that Jayasundera feels has been unfairly neglected by tour operators--that he chokes with laughter. "The Indore royal family that owns the small fort were very avant-garde. They had an amazing art collection by the '30s, and they were the first family to build an air-conditioned palace," he says, going on to describe the Labradors that jump...
...decades, the fashionable way for Westerners to tour India was hopscotching from one former maharajah's palace to another, many made over and managed by India's big hotel chains and all of them trading on India's colonial past. They boast scores of costumed staff, playful nods to aristocratic pastimes like life-size chessboards and an irritating parade of people with name tags searching for their corporate event. Now, the more modern way to see India is a mix: a few outstanding palaces and an eclectic selection of small luxury hotels and guesthouses...
...perhaps more by her star power than the subject. Portman’s appearance at the Harvard Business School yesterday focused on her work with the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), which provides financial services to the poor in developing countries, and was part of a national college tour to increase support for microfinance, the practice of making small loans to poor individuals in developing countries. She said she had known nothing about global poverty and microfinance until her senior year at Harvard, when the circumstances of a close acquaintance in Israel moved her to take action. But after...
...Portables have taken her around the world. She has performed everywhere from Korea to the Netherlands, and now, of course, here to Cambridge. Although her residency at Boston University and her upcoming performance at Harvard may not be quite the same as the “Tour of Comedy” which she performed in Germany, Porter is still looking forward to this performance. “It’s always fun to bring it to a new audience and to share it, and to talk to people afterwards,” she says. “I love...