Word: oakes
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Other grizzled veterans see fewer similarities. “Camp is actually much more difficult than Harvard,” says Lauren E. Berk ’06, a former counselor at Camp Oak in California...
Razzle-dazzle is an important part of the UpStairs on the Square experience. Those who are in search of an oak-paneled dining room with a laid-back filet steak and a good bottle of red wine should look elsewhere. (Grill 23 in Back Bay, in fact.) An evening at UpStairs on the Square is an extravaganza and you will not be allowed to forget it. En route to your table, a helpful hostess shows you the entire restaurant—isn’t the location of the wine cellar the business of the restaurant’s staff...
...sweet spot may be somewhere in between--somewhere, for example, where Burberry is. Its new stores do a superb job of projecting and updating the brand's stuffy British heritage. Burberry's East 57th Street outlet in New York City is an ebony-and-white-oak fortress as well as a cool place to shop. Its made-to-order trench coats--ranging in price from $800 to $2,155--are offset by less expensive offerings such as swimsuits and belts...
...weather flights. Like J.F.K. Jr., too many small-craft pilots don't fly often enough to stay sharp, or they take off, bad weather or not, because plans were made and time is short. Give me terra firma any time, even with traffic delays. RONALD ROTTSCHAFER Psychologist Oak Brook...
...shop that Ducasse opened in the city's posh eighth arrondissement. Be - which presents itself as "the very first bakery-grocery store" - is a corner shop reimagined by a fashion magazine. Wicker baskets behind the counter are piled with 18 different types of handmade bread. The oak shelves lining its plate-glass windows are crammed with groceries no upscale Parisian kitchen can be without, from squid ink to balsamic vinegar. "Our customers know that every product has been personally chosen and tested by Alain Ducasse," explains Agnès Defontaine, who was responsible for putting Ducasse's concept in place...