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Healthy Eating In "Eat your greens" you classified milk and cheese as unhealthy foods [March 2]. It is dangerous to demonize dairy, which is absolutely essential for our health. You cannot replace it with vegetables or soya. The French board for nutrition and health advises the consumption of three helpings of dairy products a day, and four for children, adolescents and the elderly. Indeed, dairy contains the calcium, proteins and vitamin D our body needs, especially at certain times of life. It is dangerous to make people believe that they can do without them, for the specious reason that...
When the College Events Board and the Harvard Concert Commission announced that Ratatat and Sarah Bareilles would be performing for this year’s Yardfest, an annual debate immediately took over House email lists and dining hall chatter. Some agreed with the picks, and some paid no attention, but naysayers held up the announcement as the most recent example of the CEB’s ineptitude. It seems crazy, the argument goes, that if Brown can get Nas and Of Montreal for their Spring Weekend, Harvard must settle for Third Eye Blind and Gavin DeGraw (and when given...
...agonizing wait is finally over. Last week, the College Events Board announced that pop singer-songwriter Sarah Bareilles and electronic group Ratatat will be performing at Yardfest this year on April 19. Whether the event will be successful has yet to be seen. We hope, however, that the CEB has learned its lesson from the disastrous Girl Talk pep rally this fall. Bareilles and Ratatat are a departure from the series of outdated artists that the CEB has booked over the past couple of years. With Gavin DeGraw and Wu Tang Clan on stage last year, and Third Eye Blind...
...open to the possibility of taking a direct hit from budget constraints herself. ”All leadership [at Harvard] is going to do it. It’s our way of responding together,” she said, noting that budgetary belt-tightening is required across the board in a recessionary economy. “We’re a team.” Mount added that OCS has already “trimmed the fat” in its expenditures, reducing food, travel, and the purchase of paper products. Other, more long-term alternatives to cutting back...
...tradition of online literature in China, Hou and other writers say, goes back to the mid-'90s, when the bulletin-board system, or BBS, first appeared on the Chinese Internet as a platform to share opinions and in many cases literary creations. "I still recall my astonishment when I read my first online novel some 15 years ago on a BBS," says Zhang Kangkang, a renowned novelist and vice chairwoman of the Chinese Writers Association. "It was then that I realized how serious and creative the so-called online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites...