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Lissome young women dressed in demure earth tones smiled their way through the room, brushing shoulders with men turned out in their finest tweed. The murmur of conversation rose and fell in intensity as people paused to take discreet sips from their wine glasses. A waiter stopped before a chatting pair, silently proffering a tray of filo pastries topped with pear and ricotta—don’t mind if I do! FM crashed the after party for the History and Literature Centennial Celebration, held last Saturday in Emerson Hall. Having observed panel discussions among 11 of the department?...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hist. and Lit. Turns 100 | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...relaxed such meetings used to be, and how tense and paranoid, even Soviet, they've become. We didn't talk so much as whisper, all the while eyeing the felt-covered furniture around us, half expecting a bearded agent to pop out from behind a fake plant, or the waiter to slip a listening device under the sugar bowl. Instead of discussing how Iran could avoid a nuclear crisis with the West, we talked about how we could avoid being labeled enemies of the state. Who cares about uranium enrichment when you spend your days and nights fretting over whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranoid in Tehran | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

Next time the waiter brings you the billfold after a meal at a Shangri-La hotel, be sure to dig deep. The Asia-Pacific hotel chain is running a charitable drive, entitled Dare to Care, at around 40 of its properties, from Dubai to Sydney. Guests put their donations into a red envelope contained in the billfold (the packets are based on the traditional Chinese envelopes used for making gifts of money at festive occasions) and the sums are given to the Beijing-based charity Care for Children, for use in the organization's One in Ten initiative. The goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pushing the Envelope | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

Next time the waiter brings you the billfold after a meal at a Shangri-La hotel, be sure to dig deep. The[an error occurred while processing this directive] Asia-Pacific hotel chain is running a charitable drive, entitled Dare to Care, at around 40 of its properties, from Dubai to Sydney. Guests put their donations into a red envelope contained in the billfold (the packets are based on the traditional Chinese envelopes used for making gifts of money at festive occasions) and the sums are given to the Beijing-based charity Care for Children, for use in the organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pushing The Envelope | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub revue. He met Mansfield at a performance, where the impressed star is said to have told a waiter, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

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