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Since the Odyssey recounts a journey in many stages, with several other trips contained in it, Homer describes many arrivals and departures, often at princely houses.
Siddhartha grew up in princely luxury, but when he was taken out one day to the edge of the royal parks, he saw the poor, the sick, and the aged.
The Back Lakes District contains many landmarks of old Beijing — from princely mansions to old temples and gardens — but it is best known for its colorful alleyways and traditional courtyard houses.
He is receiving such a princely sum from the University of Illinois not just because he's famous--or notorious--but because he was the chief architect of two of the most well-thought-of (though controversial) American academic programs in the 1980s and '90s, Johns Hopkins University's Humanities Center and Duke University's English department.
A few gripes from the fringes: According to the Village Voice 's Richard Gehr, although beautiful to look at, the film is "numbingly formulaic" and rife with the usual Disney clichés: "absent parents, unthreatening yet princely hero, perky but ditzy heroine, swarthy villain, cute sidekicks, hugs, lessons, and a CD's worth of forgettable pop tunes."
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