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Personally, I found the film’s preoccupation with the New World-Old World cultural divide more like a Henry James novel with a beverage fetish. Despite winemaking’s age-old European heritage, much of its current jargon is so new, and so clearly American, that it still has no place in the languages of Europe’s great wine countries. The French word for “wine marketing,” for example, is just “wine marketing...
DIED. HANS BETHE, 98, last of the scientific titans who helped devise the atom bomb for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project; in Ithaca, N.Y. Before heading the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos, the brilliant, unpretentious refugee from Nazi Germany took on an age-old mystery, the question of precisely how the sun and stars keep burning, and solved it in six weeks. Later a vocal proponent of disarmament, he criticized Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan in the 1980s, saying, "We need to try to understand the other fellow and try to come to some agreement...
...little more than reinforce the negative socialized stereotypes Summers’ remarks have been criticized for conjuring. It is truly baffling that, even as criticism is levelled at Summers, the group he was most likely to have alienated seems to agree with him. We are left, therefore, with the age-old question...
...critics aside, Summers’ leadership style has been most notable for its resistance to Harvard’s age-old decentralized structure, in which each “tub” is said to exist on its own bottom...
...Harvard women’s hockey team’s two-day doubleheader against Union may not have solved this age-old question, but it did prove one thing: when the immovable object is Union’s offense, there isn’t going to be much of a contest. In two games this past weekend, the Crimson blanked the Dutchwomen...