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Shattuck said the Partnership may make the schools more attractive to Harvard affiliates with children. Many professors now send their children to private academies, and a recent check of the rolls by city administrators revealed that only one student who attends public school lives on posh Brattle Street...
...inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced by Irish and American adventurers -- that had seen it all and was not easily impressed. A fond parodic cynicism rode the crest of every inflection; a suspicion of all things posh lurked in the slurs and slang. This was the perfect voice to carry pop culture through the mid-'60s, till things went tragic and the Beatles turned into eminences cloistered enough to be their own parodies...
...crack be liable to life in prison. Local police in the state have begun confiscating the cars of cruising crack buyers. Meanwhile, federal agents arrested Jose Giraldo, the alleged primary East Coast contact for a $600 million international drug ring. They also nabbed Michael Phillippo, the manager of a posh Westchester, N.Y., country club, as another alleged ring operative. Police found more than $3.1 million in $20 bills stashed behind Phillippo's wine rack...
...Fifth Avenue, amid posh hotels and shops, is a roseate version of Venice's Harry's Bar, named Harry Cipriani after Owner Arrigo (Harry) Cipriani because the title Harry's Bar is already in use in New York. Cipriani shuttles between Manhattan and Venice, dishing up unremarkable but popular food in both cities. "Business couldn't be better," he reports, noting that his New York offshoot is frequented for lunch by "lady shoppers." Perhaps they are attracted to his wanly handsome son Giuseppe, 21, the manager, who was rated by On the Avenue, a tony monthly tabloid...
...their plates if the plans of other European restaurateurs pan out. Alain Senderens, formerly of the three-star Archestrate and now of Lucas-Carton in Paris, expects to open on a midtown site. In addition to the fashionable Milan favorite Da Bice, other popular Italian restaurants, such as the posh El Toula chain and the sublime San Domenico in Imola, near Bologna, are seeking locations. Not all agree that New York is the only place to be. Michael Hutchings explains why he and the Roux brothers chose Santa Barbara. "This is a cosmopolitan town and is a getaway...