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...days Jobbins is no longer the treasurer of HSI (though he has founded the illustrious club Harvard Lovers of the Garden State), and Adelman has resigned as president but remains on the board of PSC. Last year, they managed to keep the serious nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict low-key in their personal relationship. Since then, it’s been so far, so good. “We’ve only sent each other to UHS twice, so that’s got to be a good sign,” says Adelman...
...friends and I are probably going to do something small and intimate, but not necessarily sad—it doesn’t necessarily need to have these dark overtones,” Thebaud said. “It will be low-key and casual, we just don’t want to let the day go by unnoticed...
...issue at the heart of the decision last week by Ford and his business partner, Domenico De Sole, to leave Gucci. It was what the duo had been fighting to maintain for the past year as they negotiated the terms of their contracts with Serge Weinberg, the low-key but firm chief executive of PPR. The pair's departure, if inevitable, was still the most cataclysmic thing to happen to the fashion world since Gianni Versace's murder in 1997. It rocked the luxury-goods business from Madison Avenue to the Place de la Bourse, where PPR shares slumped...
...Spoon will be a formidable competitor to the city's other top-league restaurants, but other contenders are emerging from unexpected quarters?among them the low-key Renaissance Harbour View Hotel. Located in the shadow of the more fashionable Grand Hyatt, the Renaissance is home to Scala, tel: (852) 2802 8888, a fine-dining restaurant that regulars say has long served the best Continental cuisine in Hong Kong but is only now starting to win critical attention. Chiefly responsible for this is the young, talented local chef Ricky Cheung: how someone who has never trained in Europe can show such...
Downstairs, Calvin T. Chin ’06 has just arrived and is about to join his friends at a table by the front window. He praises the Kong for its late-night service and friendly, low-key vibe. “I’m from Hong Kong, so when I first heard about this place, I swore I’d never come because I’m such a Chinese food snob. But after awhile you learn to like the bad greasiness—just like you get adjusted to bad dining hall food...