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...story it is. Born in 1950, Iwasaki says she knew by the age of three that she wanted to become a geisha and, at the age of five, left her family and moved for training into an okiya, or geisha household. Years of schooling in dance, music, pouring sake and performing the tea ceremony followed, and at the age of 15 she turned...
...Replacing Neil Rose is not an open-and-shut decision. He’s the Harvard captain, for God’s sake. He’s also the leading all-time Harvard passer. You must respect his position, but when you’re playing Yale...
...into words; that the roiling impulses that rule are lives are either ineffable or just F---able. But the history of theater is an honor roll of articulate talk; the Greeks and Shakespeare, Corneille and Shaw thought so, and Stoppard is their avatar. Not talk for talk's sake - though why not, when he's so good at it? - but to clarify thorny ideas and to reveal thickety feelings...
...blank check," which was out of the question. The mood on Collis' picket line was bitter, only broken by noisy cheers as passing motorists responded to a sign saying honk if you support us. The anger was directed at the government: How could Labour - Labour, for Heaven's sake! - refuse to find money for deserving workers when it was prepared to pay out hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money for a war with Iraq? Says Collis, "I was a Tory, but have voted twice for Labour since 1997 - not again." Collis earns €3,900 a year for driving...
...just a party, thrown by Topjian and his roommates when they were living in DeWolfe. (Topjian is now back in Quincy, where his sparsely furnished room features a tatami mat and oversized pillows.) The boys invited friends and friends-of-friends over for a night of sushi, sake and a trip-hop DJ. Although the gathering devolved into what Topjian deems “a crazy old dance party,” sushi fans and sake sippers begged him for more. “People really showed interest in sushi and the whole spirit of the night...