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Besides the Senior Tutor Stout, another of the beers entered is the Nahuatl Pale Ale. “Nahuatl”—pronounced NA-wat—is the Aztec word for rabbit, and this beer has a very hoppy taste, which the two call a “Sierra Nevada Pale Ale kind of style.” Their third and final beer is “Lou Brown’s Olé,” a Belgian-style brew. “We were trying to make a lambic ale,” Hornstine says...

Author: By Kenyon S.m.weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 1st Annual Harvard Beer-Brewing Competition | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

DIED. MARVIN HARRIS, 74, provocative mainstream anthropologist who promoted "cultural materialism," the idea that human social life forms in response to practical problems; in Gainesville, Fla. Among his theories: Aztec cannibals were protein-deprived; warfare was a way of curbing populations when protein became scarce; and a necktie signaled that a man was above physical labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 12, 2001 | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...highly as a Zagat four-star. Anyway, Prada and tragically hip in the “I’m-wearing-ethnic-clothing-because-it-makes-a-fashion-statement” sense reigns in a restaurant that doesn’t struggle hard to maintain a Mexican patina. Aztec and Toltec and Mixtec objets d’ art abound, and the decor is suitably sunset yellow and darkened wood...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...Colby, grossing $100,000 in addition to the "sweet" yellow Aztec he's already won, took it very, very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tina Was Tantalizing, the Show Was Not | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...they've been trying to get rid of him for weeks. But if he sweeps the challenges, even his victims, the ones who leaned on him for too long, will have to hand it to him. And we'll watch the Colbster drive away in his Brand New Pontiac Aztec, with stray bills fluttering out the windows, and we'll wave, and shake our heads. It's not like Tina and Keith are all that likable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor:' The Sugar is Dead. Long Live the Spice. | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

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