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Here's a tip: If you're in a jam, find the nearest Heath Ledger fan. They are among the most charitable people in the world--forgiving, long suffering and loyal. How can you tell? Because they have put themselves through some spectacular duds on his behalf. (The Order, anyone? The Four Feathers?) Having captivated them as a rascally but tender heartthrob six years ago with teen catnip like 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, Ledger, 26, then virtually disappeared from the kind of movies they--and almost everyone else--enjoy. The chisel-jawed Australian...
...dining room is sci-fi white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adriŕ's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot jam, baked skate with clam aioli, smoked beef with "ancient mustard" foam. In cooking as in science, not all lab experiments succeed: an unappealing appetizer of Iberian porkpie with truffled duck liver consisted mostly of morsels of fat. But considering the rich and varied fare dished out, the fact that we didn...
...LowKeys took the stage first with their customarily elegant clothing adding an intriguing level to their focus on contemporary pop-songs. Although each song in the Lowkeys’ repertoire, including “I’ll Be” by Pearl Jam, was well rehearsed and impeccably sung, it was the solos that enraptured the audience. One highlight was Meghan C. Joyce ’08’s cover of Michelle Branch’s “All You Wanted.” Impressively, she managed to project her clear, full voice throughout her large range...
Kevin Liles loves to give advice to young African Americans hoping to get into business. Starting as an unpaid intern at Def Jam, he worked his way up to president. Now an executive vice president at Warner Music, Liles, 37, recently published an inspirational book called Make It Happen. TIME's Dorinda Elliott talked with him about the race factor in business and playing the card game Guts with Jay-Z--but only after a barber gave Liles a trim in the Atlantic Records office...
What was it like for you, coming from Def Jam, which was a mostly black environment, moving into Warner, the big U.S. corporation...