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...messy - she and her boyfriend moved in last August, but there are still boxes on the floor. So far, you would never know that you were visiting the home of the Faulkner of awkwardness. Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was the sleeper hit of 2005. It tells the bittersweet, perfectly observed story of Lee, a quiet Midwestern girl who tries, with decidedly mixed results, to fit in at a breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Barely...
...hitmaker. Take dulce de leche, the sweetened milk cooked down to a caramel that is a staple of Latin American desserts. Overton had considered it for a cheesecake flavor for years, but he waited for a cue--Häagen Dazs' introducing dulce de leche ice cream--before trying the bittersweet, burned-sugar taste on his customers in 2002. It now ranks as the chain's fifth most popular of 40 cheesecakes...
...Lowell Belltower on a Sunday at 1 p.m., that I may not have a chance to do later in life. But I have stargazed from the bleachers of Harvard Stadium on a cool spring night, and there is no reason that the joy of the latter negates the bittersweet quality of the former.If it were always so easy to fill in the gaps, then it might seem that there is no penalty for missed chances. And clearly it’s not always as easy as a few dance lessons. But is it even the right thing to always turn...
...after the final round. “I just felt really in control all day.” Finally, the team traveled down to Rhode Island for one last tournament to close out the season and Hynes’ career. “It’s kind of bittersweet to end,” Hynes said after finishing 15th overall in his final tournament. “It was great to finish on a high note at the Ivies last weekend,” he added. Better, the team’s sixth-place finish at the final tournament...
...have been. “There was definitely the exhilaration of beating Yale, and that day and that weekend that’s kind of all you thought about,” Grimm said. “But it does seep into your head that it was a little bittersweet. I mean, we were that close...to having another Ivy League championship.”Returning to the pinnacle of the Ivy League will fall on next year’s team. By the end of the season, there was plenty for Harvard to be pleased with...