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Join Harvard luminaries such as Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 for a no-holds-barred opening shindig at the library-turned-office-building. Snag food from the Penthouse Coffee Bar, enjoy live music, and try to figure out why Yo-Yo Club didn’t get its own private space...
...Please Feed the Models Columnist Belinda Luscombe addressed the decision of the organizers of the Madrid fashion shows to bar from the runways any model who falls below a certain weight [Oct. 2]. ?Viva España! ?Viva Madrid! I have never met a man or woman who thinks those gaunt and pathetically unappealing models, who look like something from the worst of the World War II pow camps, do anything for clothes, fashion or themselves. It's time we objected to the twisted concepts of the fashion-industry nitwits. Louis C. Kleber Las Vegas Madrid's ban on models...
...Simon Hossell, European sales director of Gracenote, the company that codes and sorts music on Apple's iPod and most MP3 players, says the technology performs with better than 90% accuracy on a 3- to 5-second sample. "I have been in a bar that was so noisy all I could detect was a guitar chord - and that was enough," he says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind...
...Maison Arabe The inn's traditional Moroccan waxed walls display Gebbah rugs, copper lamps and carved cedar doors and balconies. Hide away in the candlelit courtyard by the 18th century fountain or eat tapas in the piano bar. 1 Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium...
...getting closer all the time. Or so it appears from five floors up a tiny lift at Diva, a karaoke bar in central Osaka that seems little bigger than a shoebox. It's way past midnight following the orchestra's final concert, and the beer is flowing?as is Carbo's voice: "My, my, my, Delilah!" The reverb might be less than crystal-clear tonight, but that doesn't stop the high emotion from bouncing back. Yet even though the room is filled with musicians and an opera star, two gatecrashers steal the show. A platinum-haired English teacher...