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Medical School clinical psychiatry instructor Astrid Desrosiers, 49, suffered from multiple stab wounds and was rushed to Harvard-affiliate Mass. General Hospital for treatment...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patient Stabs HMS Doctor | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Peruvian expansionism is already radiating across Latin America. Acurio's fine-dining flagship, Astrid y Gastón, operates in seven countries outside Peru. La Mar has restaurant in six countries, and Tanta, which offers light fare, just opened its first locale outside of Peru in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. A number of other multi-star restaurants have also branched out to neighboring countries. Twelve Peruvian restaurants have franchised their formulas and are operating abroad, again mostly in the rest of Latin America. Another 20 are in the process of expanding beyond Peru's borders, and Kiser ticks off a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru's Plans for Global (Foodie) Conquest | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc), a Parisian-educated Sino-Khmer, whose efforts to take land from the locals are as unrelenting as his pursuit of Huppert's teenaged daughter Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey). In their impoverished state, the women have more in common with their Khmer neighbors than the linen-suited colonial élite. As her sea wall is breached and her rice crop withers, Duras' mother asks the colony's resident superior in a letter, "What did you give me in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Against the Wall | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...talked extensively by phone, he was crushed by what he considered the biggest mistake of his life. "He wandered aimlessly around the house, barely able to feed and clothe himself," writes Schroeder. For a while, Susie thought she'd have to go back, but in the end she asked Astrid Menks, a restaurant hostess and sommelier she knew, to check up on her husband. Eventually, Astrid moved in. "Susie put me together, and Astrid keeps me together," was how Buffett came to explain things. After Susie's death in 2004, Warren and Astrid got married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett Tells All: The Women in His Life | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...public what it is they do. With Diana as its silent spokeswoman, the Fund needs no introduction - everyone knew Diana and the causes she stood for. "We're very small compared to foundations the size of Gates and Buffet, which are spending $3.5 billion a year," says Astrid Bonfield, the Fund's CEO. "But the fact that we have Diana, who is associated with very powerful images around issues like land mines and HIV/AIDS, gives us a voice. It opens doors and gives us a seat at the table." It also brings in money. All the proceeds from the sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess of Sales | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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