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...said with heartbreaking finality.“Feefs,” he said, using a nickname he had dropped after the earliest days of their marriage, “Feefs, we can go back again. He’s not there any more.”There was a brief pause. Husband and wife stared absently at the flower beds, their riot of color held back within borders.“Where is the Stable Boy?” Frederick was thinking. And Felicity, “The Stable Boy--where is he?”But when the moment...
...June of 2008, hidden on farmland in a small town in Tennessee, a village of nearly 100,000 people was constructed for four brief days, just at it has been every year since 2002. Since its inception, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has grown in both size and scope into the summer music festival. I made the voyage to what’s been called this generation’s Woodstock, harboring an empty hope that the experience would be an appropriate comparison to that summer of ’69. I would like to believe that...
...cleaner ecosystem,” he said, “and the bad applications are falling away while the higher quality applications are sticking around.” Bethel said he recognizes some of the benefits to New Facebook, but he remains unhappy. He has a brief message for the developer responsible: “When you make new things, you’re supposed to make them better,” he said. “You didn’t do that, my friend.” –Staff writer Charleton A. Lamb can be reached...
...finance unit and director of faculty planning. He is also a currently a director of the Harvard Management Company, the group that manages Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment. Light, a highly-regarded scholar who has written extensively about structuring complex financial transaction, also took a brief leave of absence in the late 1970s from the Business School to serve as the Ford Foundation’s director of investments. “I am delighted to be joining the Board of one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers,” Light said...
...gangly 20-year-old stuffing his face with a day-old cornetto. Giuseppe waved, and the powdered sugar stuck to his puffed cheeks blew into the wind. The chef handed me a double-breasted uniform when I showed up that night for the dinner shift. After a brief tour of the kitchen, he introduced me to the other cooks in the kitchen. There was one person on each station—antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci—and I was to shadow the chef’s girlfriend Alessandra on sweets. Working 14 hours a day, six days...