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...that matter. It is a high-tech combination of hot air and gas, equipped not only with simple necessities like a bunk, toilet and desks but also with a fax machine and satellite telephones. The journey began on March 1, Piccard's birthday, in the snowcapped mountains of Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland. Piccard and Jones cruised toward Italy at an altitude of 21,000 ft., crossed over the Mediterranean at night and enjoyed a meal of emu. On a satellite phone, Jones chatted with his wife, who spent most of her time at mission control at Geneva's Cointrin Airport...
Impress your friends, mingle with yuppsters. A wine tasting of Chateau d'Yquem at an 'in' spot. Uva vertical. 1418 Commonwealth Ave. 566-5670. 5 to 10 p.m. $39.75/1.5...
Toole's insouciant, larger-than-life "suspicious character," Ignatius J. Reilly, memorialized in bronze, loiters in perpetuity outside the former D.H. Holmes department store, now the Chateau Sonesta Hotel. The nearby Palace Cafe, once Werlein's for Music, where Reilly bought his lute string, is a good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...
...person plays the lute? Olav Chris Henriksen is a tall, bespectacled man with a courageous moustache and a demure goatee. Mr. Henriksen is a member of the faculty at the Boston Conservatory, and some of his performances include Tangelwood, the Boston Early Music Festivals and the Soirees Musicales du Chateau of de Versailles. He has also made a concert tour of his native Norway, sponsored by the Norwegian government. It is perhaps unjustly comical to watch him curl his long body in its grey suit and blue tie around the ancient frame of the lute. His sits with...
...Serbs and the disparate Albanian groups have until Feb. 6 to sit down in a chateau in Rambouillet, 30 miles from Paris. Then they have a week, or at most two, to sign a formal pact in which Kosovo gets its autonomy for three years and Milosevic keeps his hands off. In 2002 the parties to the struggle, presumably cooled off, can negotiate a final arrangement...