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...more reminiscent of Bali than the bush; and there are friendly zebras in the gardens. The food is a well-presented delight, including fresh river fish, robust game and tender Zambian beef. And the library and bar are open-sided, fan-cooled temples to the gin and tonic, the cocktail that built an empire. Which is why, come midmorning, a languid groan goes up from guests lingering over coffee on the veranda as they realize they really should amble down to see the Falls...
...When McEnroe hits the ball it is still a work of art,” Fish said. “To watch the ball come off his racket on volleys is a remarkable visual cocktail...
...remarkable songs, culminating in a lyrical ode to Africa. Jimmy Wales, inventor of Wikipedia, met with Richard Dawkins, the biologist and outspoken atheist, to explain why Dawkins' attempts to edit Wikipedia entries kept being rejected. Philip Rosedale, creator of the popular Second Life, a virtual world online, crisscrossed the cocktail floor in search of Suzanne Vega, the noted singer, whom he had met on Second Life but never in person. Each table was a microcosm of the TIME 100 issue, with leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs joining in conversation...
...will go against the tide, picking one of Harvard’s smallest concentrations, such as statistics, folklore and mythology, or Sanskrit and Indian studies.But these more obscure concentrations can propel their members to distant and diverse futures—even if their specificity might raise eyebrows at a cocktail party.INDIA TO ILLINOISHalf a world away, a fuzzy telephone connection between India and Cambridge provides a glimpse into the life of one Harvard graduate whose choice of concentration was as unconventional as her current occupation.Meghan C. Howard ’04 says that the question of her future was hardly...
...Fuzz, written by the English team of Simon Pegg (the movie's star) and Edgar Wright (its director), who did the zombie comedy of manners Shaun of the Dead. That film was a Molotov cocktail of genres: an Anglo-American combustion of romantic Brit comedies like Notting Hill and the U.S. zombie genre so robustly exhumed in Night of the Living Dead. Or, as Wright and Pegg pitched it: "Richard Curtis shot through the head by George Romero...