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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...phenomenal dim sum at famous Hong Kong eateries, traditional and painstakingly elaborate multi-course meals in Kyoto, and roast duck at a world-renowned restaurant in Beijing. The last one even gave us a numbered certificate with our meal, in case we doubted the fowl's authenticity...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Street Food | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

Welcome to the communal table. Except for the occasional dim sum pig-out, Americans have traditionally liked their public dining experiences to be private, favoring booths, banquettes and sometimes even whole rooms that separate them from others. But lately, whether out of a modern need for community or an ancient urge to break bread in company, sharing dining space with strangers is appealing to a growing number of diners at all levels of the food chain. "I eat so many meals rushed, in front of the TV," says James Wheeler, 28. "It's sometimes nice to share a meal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Table for 20 | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...little bit dim herself, and possibly affected by her close proximity to her sister's situation. Debbie is a faithful wife who's reached that awkward age where guys are no longer hitting on her. Worse, her husband (Paul Rudd) is withdrawing from her. She thinks he's having an affair, but he's not. What he's sneaking out of the house in search of is quiet male bonding - evenings with the guys that lack the shrillness of his wife's (and kids) restlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knocked Up Delivers Old-Style Comedy | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

With Reading Period in full swing, now’s your chance to nab that prime studying location in the labyrinth known as Lamont Library. Farnsworth Room, Fifth Floor. Lamont’s own final club replete with leather chairs, dim-lighting, and butlers. As if computers were only for the plebes, the Farnsworth Room is a self-declared “laptop-free zone,” but that doesn’t mean cigars and velvet smoking jackets aren’t allowed (in fact, they’re preferred). Every December, the Farnsworth Room declares an Earl...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Out with Park Place, in with Pusey | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...here were dark when Thea L. Sebastian ’08 published the first issue of Freeze back in December of 2005. The campus media industry was at the height of a feeding frenzy, with ambitious young editors starting new publications left and right for reasons that ranged from dim careerism to boredom to thick, bloody hubris. The situation was demoralizing: most of what was falling into the doordrop was either shabby or sprawling, boring or depraved. One magazine had a photo spread featuring models but you could tell by their eyes that their bones were hollow.Freeze came...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's My Age Again? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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