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Twenty-five years after Alice Randall ’81 graduated from the College, her daughter Caroline will join Harvard as a freshman. She considers the girl her finest piece of work.Randall has plenty else to brag about, from her controversial parody of the Reconstruction classic “Gone With The Wind” to a country song that made her the only African-American woman to pen a chart-topper. But even in these creative efforts, she examines motherhood and what it means to be a daughter.Randall will deliver the Radcliffe Day speech Friday morning in Memorial Church...
...Harvard and MIT signed an open letter refusing to comply.Protesting the government’s “selective harassment,” the students wrote in the letter—which was published in The Crimson—that “the imminent deportation proceedings...represent a classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing political mood of the day.”For Rouhani, however, the policy did not result in significant difficulties. He recalls going to the immigration office, where hundreds of other Iranian students were lined up, and having his status checked...
...Epicurious An oldie but a goodie. Classic site that covers not just recipes but techniques, tools and tips...
LOVESPRING INTERNATIONAL LIFETIME, MONDAYS, 11 P.M. E.T. Work and love are two classic subjects for sitcoms, so it only makes sense to combine them. This improv comedy is set at an "lite Beverly Hills dating service"--actually located in Tarzana, Calif.--that is staffed by a neurotic crew of "relationship consultants." Cast with versatile veterans of improv shows like Reno 911!, Lovespring also features a daffy string of customers both demanding (a woman offers $10,000 to have her dog deflowered) and satisfied ("He learned some things in prison that really make me happy"). The concept has been tried...
...most memorable portraits of any character yet seen in this medium, Bechdel paints her father as a classic "closet case." An obsessive home decorator and control freak, he challenges any gender non-conformity he discovers in his children, for example making the young Alison, whose playground nickname is "butch," wear a barrette when she doesn't want to. He also runs the family business, a funeral home, which gives the book its snarky double-entendre title. Far from fun, thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life...