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...raised in New York. She began her presentation with old family photographs, which she said “gave me my first glimpse of the Cuba I had been a part of but couldn’t remember.” Her new book, “An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba,” explores the history and culture of Cuban Jews. Behar told of her experience re-discovering Cuba in her mid-20s, and finding the small Jewish community who remained on the island after the Cuban Revolution. Greg M. Epstein, Humanist Chaplain of Harvard...
...Minsuk, architect Koreans love practically everything that comes out of the sea, and the best selection of live seafood can be found at Noryangjin, tel: (82-2) 813 3441, the fish market near Yoido Island. It's an enormous concrete building with row upon row of fishmongers hawking their wares. If you don't want to tote the day's catch home, you can take it to one of the many restaurants adjacent to the building and have your food cooked on the spot. Drinks and a meal will only set you back about $20. The restaurants stay...
...look a lot like Francois Woo. Woo's surname and taste for Cantonese food reflect his family's origins, three generations ago, in Guangdong province in southern China. His first name and French accent reflect the European culture of his adopted home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. His children are at college in Perth, Boston and, soon, London. And his $200 million-per-year business is a microcosm of globalization in action. It buys raw cotton from Asia and Africa, ships it to Mauritius, spins it into yarn and makes it into clothes designed in-house. Those...
...Rich. “You know he’s doing super-important things, but he’s still making time to get back to people.” Rich and Iconis began to trade messages via MySpace and email. After discovering that they were both from Long Island, Iconis asked to hear Rich perform “Blue Hair” and the two arranged to meet last spring. Since then, Rich has worked with the Harvard Office for the Arts’ Learning From Performers series to bring Iconis to campus in order to lead a four...
...from Nelson Mandela. "It was good to see him again," Kerik recalled. "It reminded me of the conversations we used to have during the campaign." The two men talked for a while, discussing Giuliani's first year as mayor and the unfinished tasks ahead, like cleaning up the Rikers Island jail...