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...precise, the Vietnamese capital's Ipa-Nima boutique (ipa-nima.com). Founded in 1997 by a onetime lawyer, Hong Kong-born Christina Yu, Ipa-Nima had grand ambitions from the outset, exporting colorful, individually patterned handbags under its own label to stores like Henri Bendel and Barney's in Manhattan, and Harvey Nichols in London. Although diehard fashionistas were quick to discover Ipa-Nima, it's only in the past couple of seasons that the buzz has reached fever pitch, with celebrity endorsement setting the seal. Despite her success, Yu has no plans to quit Vietnam for the bright lights...
...tiniest plosive could break the spell. Here Ann gets a bit more sonically aggressive (sometimes the drummer uses sticks!) but vocal minimalism remains her strength, so she whispers along with her acoustic guitar, barely singing songs about being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic...
DIED. HANS BETHE, 98, last of the scientific titans who helped devise the atom bomb for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project; in Ithaca, N.Y. Before heading the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos, the brilliant, unpretentious refugee from Nazi Germany took on an age-old mystery, the question of precisely how the sun and stars keep burning, and solved it in six weeks. Later a vocal proponent of disarmament, he criticized Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan in the 1980s, saying, "We need to try to understand the other fellow and try to come to some agreement...
...security is just one sign of how tense this campus has become. For nearly six months now, a cloud of controversy has hovered over Morningside Heights, the quiet uptown Manhattan neighborhood that is home to Columbia. At the center of the storm is the school’s Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC), a small unit of 20 full-time professors, some of which have come under fire for allegedly fostering academic intimidation in their classes...
...Charlene Monzo. "I haven't made much progress with computers," she admits. "I'm paper generation." That's why Geek Squad double agent Cyrus Tavadia, decked out in his black-and-white uniform, with white socks and clip-on black tie, has dropped by her 35th-floor Manhattan apartment--to connect the technophobe wirelessly to the hyperlinked labyrinth of the World Wide Web. Under his polite tutelage, Monzo, 55, learns in a couple of hours how to use the computer mouse, launch Internet Explorer and--the main thing--look for jewelry and fashion sites on Google. The setup...