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...then run through a secret computer algorithm. “We use a very complex and mysterious algorithm that no one really knows anything about,” HCS Vice President of Communications Hanzi Zhang ’12, said. Datamatch 2009 marks the service’s 16th continuous year of operation. This year, HCS has launched new features that allow users to change their answers until the deadline, and also updated the Web site for a more modern look. Students who answer the questionnaire by February 13th at 11:59 p.m. will receive their top ten closest matches...
...League. The long-time Crimson coach also continued the precedent for stability within Harvard wrestling. Following Pickett’s example, Lee yielded the team seamlessly to his successor Jim Peckham, and the Crimson has had only one other coach since. Current head coach Jay Weiss marks his 16th season with Harvard this spring. Lee’s nearly two decades at the helm of Crimson wrestling represent the second-longest tenure for a Harvard grapplers’ head coach, but his contribution to the sport extended well beyond Cambridge. Lee served as a member of the United States Olympic...
...African-American studies Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as the moderator. “Every generation of Americans since 1865 has fashioned a Lincoln to its own needs,” said Gates, who called the event a “celebration of the 200th birthday of our 16th and greatest President.” The panelists presented varying portraits of Lincoln while debating issues ranging from Lincoln’s true role in freeing the slaves to his sexual orientation. Kushner, who is currently working on a screenplay about Lincoln’s life, took a particularly sympathetic view...
...Yucatn Peninsula were the first to crush cacao into what was later known as xocolatl--what Rosenberg calls the champagne of the Maya and Aztecs--a frothy beverage reserved for the lite and for special occasions. The Spanish took chocolate back to Europe in the 16th century, discovering the pristine and aromatic criollo bean in Venezuela along the way. Until the 19th century, Venezuela produced solely criollo cacao, which satisfied more than half the world's demand for chocolate. But when an infestation came close to wiping out all the cacao in neighboring Trinidad, nervous Venezuelan farmers began...
Splendid as Palazzo Barbarigo is, it's a shame to see so many Venetian palaces used as hotels. Good news, then, that after a 20-year restoration, the 16th century Palazzo Grimani has opened as a museum. The palace boasts doorways carved from precious marble, exquisite frescoes, majolica-tiled fireplaces and rare surviving examples of pastellone (powdered marble) floors...