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...including teaching stints at Harvard and Yale, have helped form his perspective. "I feel profoundly European, but in some ways I can feel even more comfortable in the U.S. - of course more in New York than in Houston," Eco remarks, just days before leaving for a U.S. book tour. "I can't relate in any way to Bush's fundamentalism. But I can take some comfort that he represents only half of America." Reminded of Donald Rumsfeld's dismissal of "Old Europe" as a spent force, Eco suggests that the New World still has much to learn: "Sure, Europe...
...winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa Gregoriana was admired as much for its role in averting floods as for its natural beauty. The flood-prone Aniene River washed away a good part of inhabited Tivoli in 1826, so Pope Gregory XVI, as sovereign of the Pontifical Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative...
...unit in April 2004. He spent two hours, he says, picking up "pieces and pieces and pieces" of bodies of U.S. soldiers. He remains agitated about the way the military treated the 56 Iraqi translators who worked closely with him on rebuilding projects near the end of his tour; they weren't allowed to use cafeteria facilities with American soldiers, he says. Four were taken and executed by insurgents, one on Bunn's last day in Iraq. "I thought I was prepared for anything," he says, "because it wasn't my first...
...Girls Skate Too In his interview with TIME, skateboard champion Tony Hawk did a disservice to young women everywhere when he noted that his arena tour showcasing the sport is "one of the few events dads and sons can equally enjoy" [May 9]. What, girls don't skateboard? In his offhand statement, Hawk reveals the prevailing mentality: there are places where girls belong and places where they do not. Stop the brainwashing of young girls! Shelly Riley Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
Check for the latest info on your favorite band's tour schedule at Mojam.com If it's buzz you're after, Pollstar.com posts stories about the concert scene and also sends automatic e-mail when new dates are announced...