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...dessert wine, this one a 2002 from Château Memoires Cadillac in Sauternes, France. Imagine a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice laced with a sweet fragrance and no bitterness, and the flavor of this magnificent wine comes into focus. It had a perfect sugar/acid balance, an effervescent aroma of orange peel, and a slight cedar backbone...
Given that Madonna has never actually set foot in Africa (husband Guy Ritchie went earlier this year), the whole enterprise has the pungent aroma of a coordinated act of publicity. But one of the partnerships she has formed is with developing-world economic guru Jeffrey Sachs (who suffers no dilettantes): an agreement to provide $1.5 million for one of his millennium villages. They want to end poverty in one community--in this case the village of Gumulira, outside the capital Lilongwe--by simultaneously improving the health, agricultural productivity and education of its people...
...send my regards to The Crimson, my room reeks of the Camembert I mistakenly left out while briefly stepping out to join my host father in watching The Simpsons en Français. It is still delicious, though. (I’m currently in feasting mode, for the record). Aroma of Camembert or not, this moment is the first time during my whole month here that I have sat down in my room for a lengthy period of time. Scratch that, this is the first time that I have sat down at all without food or French grammar exercises...
Students who ventured up the Quincy dining hall stairs around 7 p.m. on Sunday were welcomed back from spring break not by the smiling face of the card-checker and the enticing aroma of vegetable lasagna, but by the cold, hard bars of a closed metal gate. In a scene that was echoed at Eliot House, which was one of the few upperclass dining halls open the night before College classes resumed, chaos reigned in the servery and in the seating area as students scrambled to get their hands on food and then chairs before either ran out. Apparently...
...doesn’t. Most of us even know how to do our own laundry. Everyone, though, knows that Harvard is a pretty intense place. Even with final exams over and a fresh start on a new semester, the intensity among Harvard students is still as palpable as the aroma of cod cakes upon entering the dining hall. I find that this time of year, in particular, yields these feelings; as the temperature drops and ice blankets the ground and our souls, we can’t help but start thinking about the future. Warm, picture-perfect days of summer?...