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Many people know sake as a hot, often medicinal drink served at Japanese restaurants. But the rice wine is breaking out of its place in the U.S. as a mere sushi sidekick. More refined artisanal and premium sakes, served chilled, have been turning up on the wine lists of top non-Asian restaurants. In New York City the wine list at the posh French-inspired Chanterelle features a wide variety of sakes. In San Francisco, sake is paired with the smoked meats at Memphis Minnie's Barbecue and is sold at a sake-only retail store, True Sake, which stocks...
...that higher rate, though, homeowners win only if rates rise. If rates remain stable or fall, the ARM is by far the better deal because the rate starts out low and automatically adjusts downward without the cost of refinancing. Beyond that, Greenspan said, fixed-rate borrowers pay an excessive premium. In high finance there is a quantifiable cost to fix a rate for 30 years. Home-owners pay about 1 percentage point on their loan rate for it, while mortgage lenders (which must hedge their rate risk) pay less than half of that. Over the past 10 years, homeowners with...
...when it is most vital. Harvard floods science and math concentrators with a sea of requirements. Introductory classes like multivariable calculus and organic chemistry follow fixed multiple-semester sequences. On top of that, students face Core, Expos and language requirements. All these constraints mean that electives are at a premium during their years at Harvard...
...Curb” is Michael M. Grynbaum ’07 in a slightly balder, wealthier, more abrasive form. I was desperate; this night of psychological exploration must continue! Stay, I told my lady friends, and discover as much about my psyche as I have ascertained of yours! Premium cable will be our saving grace, a glorious vehicle of mutual understanding. Gender disparities and romantic befuddlement will melt away in the face of HBO original programming...
MEDIA TO GO Storing your music, pictures and videos in one place sounds great--except when you're on the road. That's why a new company called BravoBrava in Union City, Calif., is developing AllMiMedia Premium, which will let you remotely access digital-media files from any PC equipped with Windows Media Player and a high-speed Internet connection. Imagine checking into a hotel, flipping open your laptop and watching any movie from your home DVD collection or playing any song stored on your home PC. Available in late 2004 for owners of Media Center PCs (a new kind...