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...front of the TV," says James Wheeler, 28. "It's sometimes nice to share a meal with people." Even if they are people he has never met before. Wheeler can often be found on Sundays swapping pots of jam with neighbors at the wooden farm table at his local branch of Belgian bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien. Restaurants ranging from the fast-casual Bonefish Grill chain to high-end foodie destinations like the Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., are offering communal tables. A couple who met at the shared table at Cafe Pasqual's in Santa Fe, N.M., named their child...
...Canadian trial, ING Direct has launched in eight more countries. In the U.S., where Kuhlmann is now CEO, ING Direct is the largest Internet bank, with more than half of the country's $90 billion in online deposits, according to market tracker SNL Financial. And without a single branch, ING Direct is the 28th largest bank of any kind in the U.S., as ranked by assets (and 24th by deposits), nipping at the heels of regional powerhouses such as Sovereign and KeyCorp. Even heavyweights like Citibank and HSBC are taking notice, rolling out "direct" banks of their own. Kuhlmann welcomes...
...different companies, Apple and Microsoft, and oddly enough, they were in many ways demos of the same product. One is a gimme: the iPhone, Apple's brilliant deconstruction of the common cell phone, due out June 29. The other is a product mysteriously code-named Milan, from a new branch of Microsoft called, not much less mysteriously, surface computing. What the two have in common is a very advanced touch screen...
...earned grant to study gender in the underground music scene in Japan. “Basically, I’m going to go to a lot of concerts and Harvard will be paying for it,” she quips. But first, she will work at the New York branch of the Rock ’n Roll Camp for Girls, a program for aspiring female performers and songwriters as young as age eight. It’s the third consecutive summer that Klein will be involved in the camp. “Many teenage girls feel that someone...
...clients and spreading the word to others who serve the Latino community. Basile added that SCAS advertises in courts, Spanish-speaking newspapers, and television channels. According to Angelico N.A. Razon ’08, the student president of PBHA, PBHA will continue to provide the new SCAS branch with organizational and logistical support. “I’m proud of the hard work the SCAS in trying to expand so that they’re more accessible to people who need their services,” said Gene A. Corbin, executive director of PBHA. —Staff...