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...received an urgent call from a shrewd, red-haired friend: “UHS is burning down!” He added, in a hushed whisper: “My fair lady!” Confused, we headed up Mount Auburn Street to investigate. Sure enough, the upper Gold Coast was chock-a-block with police cars, ambulances, firefighters, the works. Had the flambé chef at Finale gone a little overboard on his last crème brulée? Or did the illegal microbrewery in the Spee basement finally catch fire? (Kidding!) We tried asking...
...three mechanical sharks used in the picture, all of which were nicknamed Bruce--after Spielberg's attorney--and have long since fallen apart. Unlike the film's fictionalized Amity Island, Martha's Vineyard has never been plagued by unprovoked shark attacks, although a great white was spotted off the coast of a nearby island last year. "We're celebrating the arrival of Hollywood, not any predators," said a rep from the local Chamber of Commerce who spoke without irony. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...women’s team sailed its opponents out of the water at the Reed Trophy, held at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy this weekend. Five Harvard sailors piloted Flying Junior and 420-class dinghies through fair breeze and heavy rain, as the Crimson won the New England women’s championship and qualified for ICSA nationals, to be held June 1-3 in Austin, Tex. With 96 total points, Harvard edged by its opposition, as runners-up Yale finished with...
...Snow also describes an episode Jasper overlooks: a bizarre honeymoon she and her new husband take to the mysterious Seven Maidens islands somewhere off the Malaysian coast. For complicated reasons, the pair are accompanied by Kunichika and by Peter Wormwood, an effete young Englishman trying to tutor Johnny in the ways of the rich and British. Wormwood, the third narrator, writing years after Johnny's death, reveals all?about the murder of a British mine operator on the trip, about Kunichika's sinister connections to the Japanese troops then poised to invade the Malay peninsula, and about Johnny's growing...
Christian Dior celebrated his childhood home in his designs, so since 2005 is the centennial of his birth, his childhood home will be celebrating him with a series of summer events in the French town of Granville. It was here, in the picturesque seaside village on the Normandy coast, that the legendary couturier spent many of his early years, and where he developed the deep passion for nature that would strongly influence his fashion and fragrances...