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...Marcus Samuelsson, creator of the Aquavit restaurants in New York City and Stockholm - is packing them in. Tucked away in the bustling Kita-Aoyama neighborhood, the light-filled Aquavit greets diners with a warm and tactile mix of high-backed booths of sage-green velvet and traditional tables of crisp white linens. Furnishings and fittings, by Swedish designer Bruno Mathsson and Danes Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen, exude impeccable taste, while playful touches (curvaceous oversized pepper grinders, chunky cutlery) keep the room from becoming too rarefied. (See the top 10 food trends...
...being a folk hero,” said Desmond C. Wong, who was in the same section as Wagoner during his Business School years. “Unfortunately, the current political climate in Washington is such that whoever’s a public face gets fried to a crisp.” Wagoner was known for being “polite to a fault” and “self-effacing” both during and after his time at Harvard, according to sectionmate David G. Offensend. But in his attempts to reform GM, his proclivity...
...With momentum in hand, the Crimson continued to dominate all aspects of the game in the second set. Crisp and powerful serves prevented the Engineers from establishing any sort of offense all evening, limiting MIT to a .182 hitting percentage in the second...
...everybody, and they didn’t play like it meant less, because a victory is a victory.”The Highlanders also seemed to take the match seriously, yelling raucously after every point won. But Harvard enjoyed the upper hand, relying on Weintraub’s crisp passing and the team’s solid outside hitting to close out the four-set victory with a 25-30, 30-18 split.Senior co-captain Brady Weissbourd led the attack with a dominant all-around performance, posting a match-high 27 kills—bringing his weekend total to 55?...
...scale in the minuet. The clarinet solo featured in trio section easily captured the sweet, dance-like feel of the symphony’s shortest movement.Yet the nimble passagework of the symphony’s finale was not characterized by the same clarity of the orchestra’s crisp trills and clean spiccato passages in the allegro section of the first movement. Some of the running notes in the woodwinds were swallowed in the playful dialogue of the virtuosic movement. But Levine successfully led the orchestra in a crowd-pleasing, toe-tapping performance of the symphony?...