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...ALBAN When Chris Corbin and Jeremy King opened their latest London restaurant, St Alban, at the end of last year without even a whisper of publicity, devotees flocked. After all, this is the pair behind the Wolseley, the former car showroom on Piccadilly, which opened in 2003 yet manages to appear as if it has been around for at least a century...
...reaction has been mixed. Corbin and King are known for their clubby interiors and Nanny-knows-best comfort dishes. Yet St Alban, housed in a former BBC radio studio, features jet-set banquettes with turquoise and amethyst upholstery in a vast, brightly lit space reminiscent of an airline lounge. The food is a Mediterranean mélange of influences stretching from Venice to Lisbon, under the command of Southern Italian chef Francesco Mazzei...
...goal is to bring courses to life by relating them to the real world. It is NOT credit for service, but rather taking advantage of the dedication of students to activities such as public service to bring these courses to life,†PBHA Executive Director Gene A. Corbin wrote in an e-mail. Romance Languages and Literatures will offer Italian 60, “Italian and the Community,†in addition to Spanish 60 and Portuguese 60, which were both offered last year. In the three classes students will gain language skills while working with community...
When a teenager named Izzy gives up boxing to join a jump rope team in Jump In!, a Disney Channel original movie debuting January 12, his classmates taunt him for taking up a playground pastime made popular by little girls. Marcus Taylor, who taught lead actor Corbin Bleu his rope-skipping skills for the film, says the same thing used to happen to him while he was growing up. "I got teased all the time when I was younger," says Taylor, 20, who went on to become a world champion rope jumper in 2004. Now when people poke...
...orphanage is still home to 34 mostly disabled orphans. The benefit included a speech by Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, on the social challenges faced by China and musical performances by a string quartet organized for the occasion by Lushen L. Wu ’09. Gene Corbin, executive director of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), said that although HCC is not a member, its fund-raising strategy is similar to that of other undergraduate public service organizations. The Undergraduate Council and the President’s Public Service Fund provide minimal support for operations...