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...Faust address was a celebratory address remarking on [David] Rockefeller and his $100 million donation to the University,” said Lam N. Ho, a Harvard Law School student who attended the event and spoke at a panel Saturday. “That was basically the entirety of the speech that evening...
...dinner - a cozy affair for 150 guests - was held at the eccentric loft apartment of Pearl Lam, a Hong Kong-born art dealer and local society doyenne. Filled with large art pieces and furnishings that might be charitably described as vibrant, it resembled a gallery or a slightly camp club more than a home. (Last year, Lam freely confessed to the New York Times that her loft was "bonkers.") A gaudy, stainless steel sculpture by Zhang Wang filled one entranceway; a trio of brightly dotted, spoon-shaped chairs by Zhang Qingfang was clustered in a corner...
...Lam's apartment overlooks what expats somewhat offensively dub the "French Concession" - the old colonial name for the Luwan and Xuhui districts - although the almost exclusively white, champagne-sipping crowd certainly had something of a colonial air about it. The celebrity quota included actresses Melissa George, Jennifer Jason Leigh, January Jones and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and several generations of Ferragamo family members...
...people and grinding public life to an eerie halt. At the time, the government came under fire for not doing enough to curb the spread of the disease, leading to the eventual resignation of the acting health chief Yeoh Eng-kiong. "This is not as bad as SARS," says Lam Tin Lung, an ambulance driver who worked through that health crisis. "But we take more caution now. We've learned to be more aware of diseases...
...dancers were the stars. John Lam and James Whiteside leaped in stunning muscularity. Every part of the choreography was performed emphatically. In the middle of the piece, the two men unassumingly walked toward the piano. At that moment the simplicity of their white garments, the lighting, and the absence of a set contrasted with the difficulty of the dancers’ feats, underscoring the convergence of the secular and sublime in ballet...