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...shoots for the best wine in her price range and buys just four to six bottles a month to lay down in the coolest part of her cellar. Food writer Melissa Clark, author of Chef, Interrupted, takes the same approach. But while Olitsky uses her cool New England basement, Clark, who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., decided to build a protected environment for her bottles. "I want them to grow old gracefully," she explains. Rather than investing in a refrigerated wine closet, she had a carpenter construct a simple room in her cellar and plunked in an air conditioner. Both women...
...afternoon,however, Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas sponsor of a bill that would have split the difference between the Sensenbrenner and Kennedy bills, was in full retreat - literally leaving the building through the basement passageways into the Russell Senate office building. At the end of the day, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Cornyn's co-sponsor, was left alone proposing a series of amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone...
...lose sight of the big picture,” he says, “to make trans students feel safer.”Smith acknowledges that change cannot come overnight. Even the BGLTSA is no stranger to the slowness of institutional reform. A sign in the Holworthy basement still points people to the “BGLSA” headquarters. Only during Myers’s 1997 campaign was a “T” added to denote the group’s support of transgendered individuals. “Times change, new issues come...
...arguments about why a women’s center wasn’t right for Harvard College. I had argued that a women’s center was a bad idea on the grounds that it was, in part, driving the impending renovation of the Yard dorm basements (a very bad idea in itself), and because the idea of a women’s center in itself was either demeaning or useless.I still maintain that I’m right on the first charge. With the renovation of Hilles starting soon, student groups have more than 300 percent more space...
...more students—to more inconvenient spaces. Claiming that these groups serve half of the community is a fallacy, as not all women are interested in participating in women-focused activities. If Harvard is interested in providing space to student groups in the most efficient way possible, the basement space should be used as a general purpose space for all student groups...