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...together, and I retired limp-wristed after only a fleeting bout in full apparel. Theo, made of sterner stuff, held his own in some simulated savagery that required throwing tridents javelin-style. I was happy to console myself with dinner at the hotel's rooftop, three-Michelin-star La Pergola restaurant, with views of the Colosseum. A two-hour course costs $580 for up to eight people (aged 12 and up) and will run throughout the Christmas school holidays and beyond. www.cavalieri-hilton.com
...Impressionism, Surrealism and other major -isms, has been supplanted, at least in commercial terms, by New York City and London. Auction houses in France today account for only about 8% of all public sales of contemporary art, calculates Alain Quemin, a researcher at France's University of Marne-La-Vallée, compared with 50% in the U.S. and 30% in Britain. In an annual calculation by the German magazine Capital, the U.S. and Germany each have four of the world's 10 most widely exposed artists; France has none. An ArtPrice study of the 2006 contemporary-art market found...
...celebrate the 15th anniversary of his best-selling Angel fragrance, Thierry Mugler has introduced La Parte des Anges, a perfume extract. Treated in the manner of cognac, La Parte des Anges is the result of aging Angel in a cherrywood cask for 23 weeks. Intensely concentrated, each of the numbered bottles contains a mere...
...professor participated in the strike which, according to their blog, came about in response to the appearance of a noose on the door of an African-American Columbia professor, the University’s plan to expand into East Harlem and the ongoing racial controversy in Jena, La. The strike called for “a more systematic response to hate crimes from Public Safety, a more collaborative expansion effort from the administration, a revision of the Core that encourages critical engagement with issues of racism and colonialism” and increased funding to various campus multicultural groups...
...team that takes the Bonds bait. It's bad enough we'll have to suffer through his trial, unless he takes an unexpected plea. Do we also want to see him sitting in a San Francisco courtroom by day, and catching a charter to a game by night, a la Kobe Bryant during his 2004 rape case? (The charges against Bryant were later dismissed.) Of course not. And if that kind of spectacle drives fans crazy, imagine how it could destroy a clubhouse. Even for a dreadful team like the Devil Rays, that's a lot to lose...