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...journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while Alistair, rather prissily, feels his ears burn. London, on the other hand, is portrayed as a liberal haven, where artists are allowed to pursue their dreams with few worries of generating an income or conforming to social norms. If only...
...about changing the texture, density or viscosity, the molecular structure of a liquid," says award-winning mixologist Charlotte Voisey. The chemical-cocktail movement grew out of a 2005 symposium sponsored by Dutch distiller Bols. In attendance were Hervé This, the father of molecular gastronomy, and eight of the world's top bartenders. They created drinks including a boozy ice cream using liquid nitrogen and an ice-cube-like gin-and-tonic jelly. This month Cointreau is introducing a kit to convert its orange liqueur into caviar pearls. Moët & Chandon has created a line of Champagne drinks with foams...
...Mama B to her friends and family, Cedella Booker, the mother of legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, was an accomplished artist. In addition to penning two biographies of her world-famous son, the Jamaican native recorded albums, including Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song. Married to Bob's father Norval Marley for nearly 30 years, until his death in 1955, she later remarried and moved to the U.S. Like her son, who died in 1981, she passed away in Miami...
Philip III of Spain is one of history's also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...about spinal cord injuries by promoting a student-created Web site, SPINALpedia, which is designed to create a support resource for people with spinal cord injuries. Brittany J. Martin ’08, who developed the idea of SPINALpedia, approached the Harvard Concert Committee about inviting the band. Her father, who is a quadriplegic, met Braddigan last year when they performed at Saint Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania. Martin said that her father was speaking at the event and that the members of Braddigan were “very touched by his story.†According...