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...Wilsdorf, never one to shy from promotion, gave an Oyster to Mercedes Gleitze, who wore it to swim across the English Channel. The Oyster Perpetual broke the sound barrier with Chuck Yeager in 1947 and reached the peak of Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953. Rolex is still considered the gold standard among watch collectors. After all, nothing says you've made it like a Rolex...
...Soho Hotel and the Charlotte Street, favorites of celebs like Giorgio Armani, Glenn Close and Jennifer Lopez). The Haymarket, which was designed in the 19th century by architect John Nash, will have 55 rooms and suites, all individually decorated by Kit Kemp in a fresh, modern yet traditional English style. The lobby will feature artwork by Tony Cragg and John Virtue. The Brumus Bar and Restaurant will serve northern Italian cuisine, and other hotel features include a library, gym, beauty-treatment room and 60-ft. pool...
...humanities courses were approved for Literature and Arts A, and only then because Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 decided to bypass the Core Standing Committee and approve the classes themselves. Similarly, students in English 125, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” received official notification only yesterday that it, too, will count for Literature and Arts A—four weeks into spring semester.The expansion of the Core, however, must be greatly expedited. When next year’s Courses of Instruction...
...tone can be catty (“Note to Harvard’s PR team; it’s time to get a new picture of Faust out there”) and his topics tabloid (posting a link to the wedding registry of Summers and his wife, English professor Elisa New). Most of all, he’s provocative, preferring the question mark over other forms of punctuation...
...says. “Usually, I’m doing homework, sleeping, or playing in concerts.” And as for a social life, she says, laughing, “I don’t know what even means a ‘social life’ in English. But I think I don’t have a social life.” She perhaps puts it best when she explains the composition of her average day: “The whole day is work.” For serious pianists, there is often a choice between...