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...Versailles in France, has undergone an extensive face-lift. Visitors to the five-star hotel, built by René Sergent, the architect who designed the Plaza Athénée in Paris, can meander in the grand public spaces within or in the newly restored gardens. For mealtime, Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay has opened a restaurant in the hotel...
When David Gordon Green walked into the screening room at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on March 10, he looked indistinguishable from many of the students in the audience. Wearing a pair of jeans and a nonchalant expression on his face, Green’s casual appearance belied his status as an experienced and critically-acclaimed film director. Green was present at the HFA to screen a number of his films, including the newly released “Snow Angels,” and to answer questions from the audience. Green’s directorial technique is marked...
...others in the Boston area, will continue to provide on-site training for third-year students at the Medical School as part of the Integrated Clerkship program that it launched in 2004. “We are classified as a major teaching facility,” said Gordon H. Boudrow, Jr., the CHA’s chief financial officer. “The best part of our mission is the training, and we are not looking to make any changes in that.” Boudrow added that the CHA’s mission also includes providing health care...
...What's more, the leaders have already rejected one measure touted as a boost to the environment: a plan to cut sales tax, or VAT, on green goods and services to just 5%. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, backed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was politely rebuffed at the summit when he outlined his proposal to give favorable tax treatment to such products as low-energy light bulbs and fridges...
...question, there's a tumbledown, slacker spirit among some of the 81 artists that Huldisch and Momin have selected. Yet they also chose just enough work in which the materials may be humble but the ambitions are larger. New York artist Heather Rowe has adapted ideas from the late Gordon Matta-Clark, who sawed entire houses into parts to expose their strange and poignant innards. Rowe builds her own wooden frameworks, embedded with shards of mirrors and bits of vagrant molding, that create memory mazes, which double as Minimalist sculpture...