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...Chinese Student Association and the Society of Arab Students mark just two in a series of campus ethnic groups attempting to escape their homogenous image by opening their doors—and sometimes their officer boards—to members from other ethnicities.‘COLOR BLIND STUDENTS ASSOCIATION’In an opinion piece in The Crimson last spring that raised an uproar on campus, Jason L. Lurie ’05 charged that ethnic groups and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations “exacerbate the already intractable problem of self-segregation...
...Action Committee of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Xi Tau Chapter, the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and Harvard Students of Color Against AIDS (SOCAA) co-sponsored the two-hour long event, entitled “Inspiring Action through Awareness...
...northern Hindustan, Central Asia, and Persia." So the recipe for the Persian rice dish called the pilau, altered by chefs in the kitchens of the Mughal emperors, becomes the Indian biryani. The rogan josh, originally a Persian meat curry, travels down to Kashmir, becomes spicier, and turns reddish in color when a local herb is added. And the vindaloo, the dish that, to foreigners, epitomizes the fieriness of Indian cooking, was brought to Goa by its Portuguese conquerors; the name comes from carne de vinho e alhos?meat cooked in wine vinegar and garlic...
...Collingham tells the story of how the culinary habits of conquerors and conquered got jumbled up in India with great flair, drawing on historical records and local lore to color her tale. Thus she relates the legend, still prevalent in the Indian city of Lucknow, that the local shammi kebab, a mincemeat patty, is made with particularly fine meat because a toothless 18th century Nawab would otherwise not have been able to gnaw his way through it. If all these stories make you hungry, Collingham thoughtfully supplies several historically accurate recipes, ranging from the zard birinj, a rice dish eaten...
...Center exhibition last year, according to Currier House Master Joseph L. Badaracco. But the origins of the famed Elmo are unknown, he added. “It was not on loan from the Fogg, however,” Badaracco wrote in an e-mail. “Before the color, all we had were long stretches of soul-destroying, institutional white,” he wrote. When Elmo was stolen last month, according to Badaracco, “He was returned a day or two later by a Currier House student who found him in the bushes outside the house...