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...Facts: There’s a fast track from Cambridge, Mass. to Cambridge, U.K. Six scholarships send Harvard students to different colleges at the University of Cambridge for advanced study. So go long and drown the Type-A personalities that got you there in pints of bitter...
...also bringing Harvard to within a single score with 40 seconds to play.But it was too little too late for the Crimson, who suffered its first-ever loss against Clarkson, after beating the Golden Knights four times a year ago.“It’s a pretty bitter taste, but you learn from it and you come out tomorrow harder,” Wilson said after her first collegiate defeat. “[But] we’re pretty upset with this loss.”The Crimson hoped to improve upon Saturday’s effort heading...
Uncorked Inventor: Gérard Michel, Laurent Villaume Availability: Now, $59.95 To Learn More: tasting-international.com Have you ever popped the cork on a fine Bordeaux or Chardonnay only to encounter a bitter taste and noxious aroma? About 5% of all bottled wine is tainted by a molecule in some corks known as trichloroanisole (TCA). Now a French company has devised a way to extract the TCA and restore the wine's bouquet. Pour the wine into the Dream Taste glass pitcher and insert a bunch of white plastic grapes, included in the kit. The faux fruit acts as a filter...
More often than not, incurring the wrath of your own party is a recipe for failure in politics. But in 2003, when Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn fought for the largest tax increase in state history, he not only infuriated his core Republican supporters but also sparked a bitter legal battle and a short-lived recall campaign against him. So it is a testament to Guinn's savvy and leadership that instead of being wounded in the civil war, he actually came out stronger, eventually broadening his public support and raising his standing among good-government watchdogs. "The state will...
...wrong hands, a big ensemble like this can be deadly, but Martin is a tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting plotter and a deft and inexhaustible sketcher of personalities--including Tyrion Lannister, a bitter, cynical, high-born dwarf (he's Martin's Falstaff) and Brienne the Beauty, a huge, unmarriageable, monstrously ugly woman who fights in full armor and usually wins. Martin has an astonishing ability to focus on epic sweep and tiny, touching human drama simultaneously. The supernatural plays a role, but only rarely...