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Apollonia U. Poilâne ’07 brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “term-time employment.” The economics and psychology concentrator is the CEO of Pain Poilâne, a premier Parisian bakery with over 150 employees that, according to Poilâne, does around $18.2 million of business a year. Poilâne took over in October of 2002 after her parents were killed in a helicopter accident. At the time, she was taking a year off; when she learned of their deaths, she realized she would have until...
...looks to invite “entertainers with… a sound based on their place in history and their development of an original voice.” Sanabria’s background is primarily in Afro-Caribbean and Latin jazz. Everett describes him as a “premier Latin percussionist, educator, and historian.” Indeed, Sanabria’s diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, and “Godfather of Cuban Jazz” Mario Bauzá, according to the artist?...
When Fendi's Burke caught a plane to Istanbul last June just to take in the scene, he started in Nisantasi?known as the Beverly Hills of the city?checking out the fashion group Beymen's premier store. Most of the Fendi bags were sold out or back-ordered on waiting lists. Next, he headed to Kanyon, an architecturally splendid new development comprising living, working and shopping areas with sweeping, cantilevered elevations, broad thoroughfares and intriguing side streets...
There's energy in the arts too. The elegant Oya Eczacibasi (a member of one of the premier industrial families, equivalent to New York's Rockefellers in the 19th century) is the chairwoman of Istanbul Modern, which opened in 2004. Eczacibasi, who campaigned tirelessly for a museum of modern art, says it's important to emphasize that culture here did not stop at manuscripts and carpets. "We were very proud of our Ottoman past. Now we can be proud of our present and our future," she says...
...sure would actually take place. Yet as Nixon was going over his briefing books and practicing how to use chopsticks en route to Beijing, the seriously ill Mao was getting his first shave and haircut in months. As soon as Air Force One landed and Nixon greeted Premier Zhou Enlai with a prolonged handshake, Mao ordered Zhou to bring the President immediately to his house in Zhongnanhai...