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...Palagio, the hotel's main restaurant, marries imposing decor (grisaille walls, lilac-and-white curtains, Murano chandeliers and neoclassical art) with upscale representations of local specialities (chickpea soup with salad of lentils and green beans, and roast pork with black cabbage flan). Guests can walk off their sumptuous meals by taking a stroll through the lawns, paths and copses that grace the 11-acre (4.5 hectare) garden, which was partly designed as a botanical garden for rare species. Nature's healing powers are also emphasized in the spa, where treatments are based on luxuriously scented herbal products from the Santa...
...Harvard community celebrated Darwin’s 200th birthday in style with free drinks, science-themed rock bands, cake, decor, and a dancing gorilla...
...past, but I want people to notice that we’ve made a cut.”The face painter who made the multicolored balloon animals at last year’s Law School party may be missed, but the kids can busy themselves with inexpensive cookie decorating, Long said. And they will still receive the gift bags purchased during an after-Christmas shopping spree when everything was “deeply discounted,” Long said.“I know the HLS party has always been quite an event,” said Mark C. Webster...
...vision of serenity. Set against the opulent decor of the lobby of the Inn at Harvard, he is dressed simply in a grey robe and matching pants, a crisp white collar clasped around his neck. Thick bifocals perch gracefully on his nose. Two tufts of snowy-white hair peek from beneath his characteristic red felt hat. He speaks with a soft, gravelly cadence, but carries himself with the gravitas befitting his stature. Chinua Achebe stands as perhaps the most recognizable and lauded African author of modern times. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, his premier novel, “Things...
...pleasant, even moving, if not a little rough around the edges. About a quarter of the way through the show, Kottke actually began to speak—first about how he never knows what to say to his audience, then about the ideal acoustics and intimidating decor of Sanders Theatre. Every digression or anecdote evoked a strange and enigmatic vision of the man and the movement he symbolizes. The strain of music that Kottke helped make famous—a hybrid of blues, folk, country, and bluegrass traditions known as “American Primitive?...