Word: queens
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WYSS: We will get back to full employment. There will be more contract freelance jobs, and whether that's good or bad depends on you. Some people's skills are going to become obsolete. It becomes a Red Queen world, where you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place...
...bespoke Savile Row suit is a British icon, right up there with the Beatles, the Queen and the red double-decker bus. So you should probably be sitting down for this: Kilgour French Stanbury, tailors to the well-heeled and well-dressed, are making some of their suits in Shanghai. Why? The same reason anybody makes anything in China these days: it's a lot cheaper. The Shanghai suits start at $1,650, a mighty markdown from the $5,800 for the made-in-London versions. But is it still a Savile Row suit if it's made in China...
...setting for James Bond's game against Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film - and a new $20 million spa and racquet club. It's also rich in history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older - previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept prisoner there by the Scots in 1647. It was Stoke Park that moved 17th century politician Sir Edward Coke to utter that famous line: "An Englishman's home is his castle." For a few hours, it can be your castle...
...McGrath Lewis, every year, just 300 students are accepted for primarily academic reasons—which doesn’t mean they got a lot of A’s in high school, because everyone did; it means they uncovered the influence of a long-forgotten advisor to Queen Elizabeth I while researching a term paper. The remaining 1,700 or so accepted students certainly have top grades and SAT scores, but they also tend to demonstrate some uncommon excellence in one area or another. Just think of how many of your friends can be identified by a single phrase...
...multiple Grammy Award winner and Woodstock performer, dubbed “the godfather of world music” by George Harrison and knighted by the Queen of England, continues to spread the gospel about classical Indian music through his legendary sitar playing. Shankar is now joined by his daughter Anoushka. 7:30 p.m. $23-75. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts...