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...early returns on the fare, all of which is new or redesigned. After one lunch in the bar and two dinners in the second-floor dining room, this critic can report that the answers to the burning questions about changes, so far, are yes and no. The public and banquet rooms at "21" are nearly the same, but they are brighter and fresher. An eccentric addition to the lobby is a life-size wooden horse, a 19th century conceit that is the pet purchase of Cogan. The more sweeping changes were made in the brand new kitchens, and despite some...
...Kremlin banquet, Chirac congratulated his host, Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, and an unexpected guest, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, on their new policies toward political prisoners and Soviet Jews, but added, "You cannot ignore that from our point of view there is a long way to go." Like British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her visit to Moscow six weeks earlier, Chirac applauded U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations but then defended nuclear deterrence as Europe's peacekeeper over the past 40 years. Ryzhkov replied with a detailed discussion of Soviet arms-reduction aims and complained about France's nuclear policy. "Unfortunately...
...told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend -- and cannot quite bring herself to invite the driver to accompany her until the moment they reach the hotel, when his dignity compels him to refuse...
...Harvard men's basketball team handed out several awards at a year-end banquet at the Harvard Club in Boston last night...
...Harvard struggles to define the role of undergraduate education in the tenure process, the Undergraduate Council at a banquet yesterday honored two professors and a graduate student for outstanding teaching...