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...disappointment will be laid to rest in April with the opening of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. Old crew pennants from the Henley Cup, portraits of a positively paternal A. Lawrence Lowell, Former Unviersity President, and all manner of similarly rich Harvard bric-a-brac will adorn the walls of the space under Memorial Hall, in the shadow of the stifling modernity of the Science Center. Who’s laughing now, Jonas Salk...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: To The Queen’s Head | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...Frette linen, beside it an unglazed platter bearing (but of course) a single mangosteen. Yoga mats and aromatherapy oils proliferate in drawers like the Gideon Bibles of yore. And there are miserly arrangements of foliage. Fine hotels used to put out great urns of lilies; boutique hotels adorn your room with a single test tube, out of which springs a forlorn cutting of bamboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vive la Différence | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...easy to see why. Otsuka has planned every detail of the caf, from the two months of training would-be butlers undergo to the grandfather clock by the fireplace to the leather volumes of obscure poetry (by that famous Victorian bard, William Allingham) that adorn the shelves. "There's no place like this, so we had to make it from our imagination," says Otsuka. It doesn't hurt that the food is surprisingly good, prepared with the help of Paul Okada, a hospitality consultant who spent 12 years as the food-and-beverage director at the Four Seasons Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Tokyo: Where Japanese Women Rule | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...longer hip person and - and putting all my chips on the table here - an ex-Wall Street Journal reporter, I am plucking my quill, or dipping it, or whatever we did to adorn parchment back in the day. And declaring: the new Journal actually was pretty good in its debut last week. (More than anything, though, I'm glad the relaunch is over and done with. As much as I admire Gordon, I feel as if I've seen his bespectacled dot-drawn likeness an awful lot in recent weeks in the publisher's columns, telling me, the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critiquing the New Wall Street Journal | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...given out by your teammates,” senior Lindsay Weaver said. “It’s also fun to wear around.”“And it looks great,” Cahow noted about the school-bus yellow fashion statement. Moreover, the girls adorn the hat with the numbers of all the winners during the season to remind the team of these critical performances.Numbers are not repeated, as the team likes to mix it up and reward as many skaters as possible.“We have so many great players and everyone works...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hard Hat Reflects Blue-Collar Attitude | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

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