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...confusion for me at first, and apparently I am not alone. According to Paul Clark, the managing partner of the Putnam Ave. location, people still come from all over Massachusetts to look for Cremaldi’s famous pasta sauce. Luckily Petsi kept the sauce, and has managed to absorb a lot of the Cremaldi’s customer base, won over, no doubt, by the smiley staff and best damn pie around. Petsi pie is the only pie around, as far as I am concerned. I went first on a Thursday afternoon and found it suffused with the genial...
...Harvard’s system of general education should emphasize methodology over topic because methods are harder to teach and learn than facts. Facts become easier to absorb by one’s self once one has a handle on methods. Harvard students can learn facts about the United Nations Security Council or the Federal Reserve Board from the New York Times or Wikipedia, but they cannot learn the tools to make sense of these institutions so readily. As students learn to think rigorously about society and how to use data to test their thoughts, they acquire...
With that, we urge you to question your motivation for staying home this weekend as The Game approaches. Aside from giving relief to the thousands of decent folk who also claim themselves as inhabitants of New Haven, you should come with a further assurance: Cambridge is prepared to absorb your stench in exchange for the joy of seeing your faces as the mighty Crimson emasculates the demure—at best—Bulldog for the sixth consecutive year...
First Minister Jack W. McConnell instituted the “Fresh Talent” initiative in 2004 to attract young people to Scotland to live and work in order to calm the forever-growing paranoia of declining population and increasing age demographic. And I, as a journalist, would absorb all the factoids of Scotland beyond the stereotypical kilts, bagpipes, Scotch, haggis, sensationalist journalism, and redheads and write about them in an intricate weaving of prose for Harvard students to read...
...approach the problem. The first is low-key: to simply model the values and behavior you believe in, and hope for the best. The premise here is that kids are too young to be taught moral shades of gray, and can grow up most naturally if allowed to absorb the intricacies of Iranian society slowly, without too much instruction by tense parents. The benefit of this is style is that you don't actively teach your kids to lie. My friend, the one with the prayer DVD, follows this approach, and the result is an honest child who recently told...