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...James Graff, Paris bureau chief, TIME Stroll around the hip Canal St. Martin, pictured, and drop in at Le Verre Vol? (67 Rue de Lancry) for artisanal wine and whatever simple, wondrous dish is on the blackboard. To sample Paris' jazz scene, walk to La Fontaine (20 Rue de la Grange aux Belles), where the music is free. For a safer bet, there are the Rue des Lombards clubs near Chatelet, where one can catch Paris originals like Emmanuel Bex, who takes the Hammond organ to unknown registers...
...Rudenstein.“It’s important to have these overseers partake in the search because the final consent must come from the Board,” he says.However, the search committee doesn’t make its decision in a vacuum. According to a Garrett T. Graff ’03, a former Crimson editor who covered the search that produced Summers, each member of the search committee meets with hundreds of people, including prominent alumni, faculty, and leaders in non-academic fields. Each interview lasts two or three hours as the search committee tries to narrow...
...James Graff Paris Bureau Chief, TIME Stroll around the hip Canal St. Martin and drop in at Le Verre Volé (67 Rue de Lancry) for artisanal wine and whatever simple, wondrous dish is on the blackboard. To sample Paris' jazz scene, walk to La Fontaine (20 Rue de la Grange aux Belles), where the music is free. For a safer bet, there are the Rue des Lombards clubs near Chatelet, where one can catch Paris originals like Emmanuel Bex, who takes the Hammond organ to unknown registers. Alix Le Bobinnec Circulation and Events Manager, Where Magazine A leisurely jaunt...
Eventually, in the 1990s, those diamonds that were ?stockpiled? came back on the market at a just price. Today Graff estimates that the values of fancy and rare diamonds have gone up as much as 60% in just the last year. ?The world is a wealthy place. It's lateral wealth too,? he says. ?There's wealth everywhere...
...Graff's favorite stones is the Graff blue, an extremely rare, 3-carat round blue diamond that he has bought and sold three times over the past 25 years. The first time he saw it was at auction, where it sold to someone else for $180,000. Years later he spotted it on the hand of a client but couldn't buy it until after the client died, and his widow offered it to Graff for a much higher price. He eventually sold it to a Japanese client who offered $1.5 million. Fifteen years later, the same client wanted...