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...what usually drags in hordes of hungry undergraduates craving spring rolls. But last Friday, it was the Chinese Student Association’s Banquet 2009 that had undergrads scrambling to dig their chopsticks into some lo mein and get their hands on a dumpling or two. For this festive affair, Leverett dining hall was transformed into a party scene packed with more than 350 guests, including students, tutors, and even professors. Dinner, consisting of a never-ending 14 courses, was catered by the Peach Farm restaurant in Chinatown. The restaurant’s strange name, according to co-president...
...felt like that was open all day,” Stone said. “It was just a matter of finishing those types of plays.”After Ryabkina’s goal, Harvard seized complete control of a game that had previously been an evenly matched affair. The team got some insurance on a well-executed transition play from its top offensive line at the midway point of the frame.Sophomore Katharine Chute skated up the middle of the ice, and flipped the puck back to Vaillancourt, who was charging behind her. Vaillancourt made a perfect pass...
...last event for the Crimson. “While we will never have the facilities of schools like Dartmouth and the University of Vermont, I believe we are definitely headed in the right direction.”Dartmouth blew away the competition over the weekend and won the regional affair by over 150 points. The Big Green effort was led by its senior standout, Ben True, the Ivy League cross country champion earlier this fall, who skipped the Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Championships at Gordon Track this weekend to compete in the skiing event.Harvard...
...mouths. Some of their more unpleasant memories are saved for fellow hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian who was kindapped while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other prisoners and hoarding precious books, food and a transistor radio. They even claim that she told the guerrillas that the Americans were CIA agents. Asked to elaborate on Betancourt...
...truth is that, unfortunately, Adams would not have won his campaign to become mayor had he not lied about the affair. Despite the fact that nothing illegal took place and no one got their feelings hurt, the nature of the relationship—between two men with a significant age difference—violated enough of our society’s sexual norms to prohibit Adams from ascending to office. The ultimate tragedy is that the private sphere is allowed to inform the public to such a drastic degree...