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...past, however, autumn was the time to pick up a fresh pheasant at Savenor’s, carry it to Adams House, and roast it whole in the House masters’ kitchen. This practice may have medieval feast written all over it, but the pheasant roaster was the modern-day Michael Pavloff ’88, one of the handful of former and current Harvardians who view food as a potentially full-time endeavor. A former champion of amateur cooking, Pavloff says that pheasant remains his favorite dish to this...
...most impressive sight of awesome excess was in Suzhou, a neighboring, “medium-sized” city of six million people (Suzhou is one of over 60 Chinese cities with more than a million people). On a lake in a hyper-modern downtown district built entirely in the last few years, the city hosts a weekly display of pyrotechnics and choreographed water-technics that puts the Bellagio in Las Vegas to shame...
...becoming more and more familiar to shoppers. The most recent addition to this crowd is burgeoning American fashion star Derek Lam, who in December signed on to become the first creative director of luxury Italian leather-goods brand Tod's. His job? To put a fresh, modern spin on the Tod's signatures and up the ante with ready-to-wear. For fall, Lam has seized the brand's signature driving shoe and revamped it in a sleeker design in stylish jewel-tone satins. Coinciding with Lam's first season in charge is the brand's initial foray into...
Natori quit her job as a vice president at Merrill Lynch and set to work creating her first collection. Thirty years later, the woman who gave us the seamless bra and modern, chic camisoles that can be worn either to bed or out on the town has four lingerie lines available everywhere, from Saks to Dillard's. She is also expanding into menswear and home, with a bedding collection and, down the road, rugs, tableware and lighting...
...death after the Vatican took a hard line in a controversy last year in Italy over euthanasia. Indeed her accusations are grave, questioning the Catholic Church's strictly traditional stances on medical ethics, including the dictum from John Paul's own 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae to use all modern means possible to avoid death. (See the cover of the commemorative issue honoring John Paul's passing...