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Princeton continued its lackluster season with two more Ivy losses to drop its historically top-tier program to an unprecedented 0-4 record in league play...
There's cognac, and then there's cognac. The emphasis is on the latter at Domaine du Grollet, the family estate of cognac maker Rémy Martin outside Cognac in southwestern France. In one of its aging cellars, rows of tierçons (ancient oak barrels) hold eaux-de-vie (twice-distilled white wine that acquires its amber color from the barrel) for the 40-100 years it takes to attain the opulent qualities of its premium cognac, Louis XIII de Rémy Martin, which retails for around $1,400 a bottle. To be labeled a cognac...
...spur discussion at Harvard and other universities about how processes like tenure enable racism,” Sherley said yesterday. Sherley graduated from Harvard College in 1980 with a degree in biological sciences and said that the lack of tenured minority professors is a problem that pervades many top-tier academic institutions.“At the time of my graduation from Harvard there was one African-American professor in biology, so when I came to MIT I was disturbed and troubled to see that nothing had changed in 25 years,” he said. —Staff...
...year in Los Angeles, a necessity for his film career, and the rest in Manhattan, which he calls home. The ten-room Los Angeles dwelling, of white brick and wood, houses an extensive collection of modern art (including works by Modigliani and Edward Hopper) and sits above three tiers of terraces, with the obligatory swimming pool on the bottom tier, although Simon does not swim. He is a passionate tennis player, yet the house has no tennis court. "First you wind up providing the balls, then the Cokes?there's no end to it," Simon explains. "I decided to join...
Useless gizmos have a storied history in the wired world. Take singing fish, digital guard dogs and belly-dancing robots. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, second-tier techno-marketers are proudly carrying on the tradition, hawking wacky wares that beg the question: do we really need this stuff? Last year, an iPod-Dock/Toilet-Paper Dispenser stunned the crowd. Once gadgeteers had explored the kitchen, living room and bedroom, they rushed to the final frontier: your bathroom. Among the thousands of objects cluttering booths throughout Las Vegas's CES convention halls this time around, here...