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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a member of Dutch Parliament and human rights activist, addressed issues ranging from the culture of arranged marriages to the compatibility of Islam with open societies in Western Europe at several venues across campus yesterday. She began her tour at the Harvard Coop, but also spoke at the Kennedy School of Government and Center for Government and International Studies. Her visit concluded with a panel discussion where Ali addressed five questions related to immigration and Islam. She gave an analysis of immigration to Western Europe, asserting that immigration in itself is not a problem, but that unemployment...
...it’s a little bit odd that three days after my story appears, they suddenly discover problems which they hadn’t noticed there before.” Walter L. Keats ’67, president of Asia Pacific Travel, helped organize the tour package and was originally slated to accompany the travelers. “Harvard is now kowtowing to this lady as opposed to bowing to Kim Jong Il—which is worse?” Keats asked, referring to the nation’s current leader. Keats, who has visited North Korea three...
...Cook?s Tour (In the U.S.: 800-726-6388; acookstour.com) This U.S. company organizes week-long, group and private trips to Italy, France, South Africa and, of course, Oaxaca...
Keep all that in mind when you step into the tour de force just inside the Hearst Tower. Instead of a conventional lobby, Foster has produced a massive indoor piazza, a 10-story atrium bathed in sunlight from overhead skylights and surrounded by the windowed masonry walls of Urban's original base, which give the appearance of exterior walls facing inward. At a time when cities have ever less interest in parks or open space, this is an office tower with a town square inside, not a shopping mall. "A building should try to give something back to the city...
...There's no question that there's a growing interest in this type of travel," says David Iverson, who runs A Cook's Tour, a Seattle-based agency specializing in culinary trips. He launched his business with a single trip for eight people to Italy in 2001. This year the company will offer more than 30 international excursions for 400--including four to Oaxaca, where travelers spend a week cooking at Casa Oaxaca restaurant. "It's a new way to travel," he explains. "For the person who is on their 10th trip to Mexico, they're going to see another...