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...oneself in the Scottish spirit. But for a wee dram of something equally warming, stroll down to PLAISIR DU CHOCOLAT, about a 15-minute walk from Edinburgh Castle. The opulent Art Nouveau café at 251 Canongate offers up chocolate as it was meant to be: rich, flavorful and complex. Founder and master chocolatier Bertrand Espouy treats chocolate as sommeliers would wine, with an emphasis on origin, terroir and manufacture. The café window features a mouthwatering display of exquisite house-made pastries and cakes, and inside, diners choose from a menu of hot chocolate drinks categorized by country...
...point in the show, a character named Sam (Susan C. Merenda ’07) said in response to a complex sight gag, “That’s not impressive, that’s just a bunch of things thrown together.” This description was an excellent working definition of Surrealism—and it could very well have described the serial structure of the play itself. There were some recurring characters, and there was almost the skeleton of a plot throughout the play, but the form of the show was ultimately that of a Surrealist...
...adopt a “targeted divestment model” in which it pledges to divest from companies meeting very specific criteria. Today’s globalized and interconnected world, however, makes indirect investments a thorny issue. Firms invest in other firms, partner with other firms, and hold complex financial instruments that give them partial claims to ownership of yet other firms. Add to this the dynamic and quickly-changing nature of today’s business environment, and it becomes almost impossible for an institutional investor of Harvard’s size to completely separate itself from any segment...
Modern women should consciously reject this age-old inferiority complex regarding men and shoulder the responsibility that equality entails. We need to stop perpetuating the idea of our sex as secondary by forcing a false male-female dichotomy where there isn’t one. It’s time to concentrate on other things—like education, politics, or scientific research. If we truly realize that we are primary and that we are equal to the Man, then it is surely just gratuitous to “Fuck?...
Hillary’s willingness to defy the ideologies of the past is her strength, not a weakness. Following on the heels of the most dogmatic administration in recent history, we welcome a president who approaches today’s complex issues with an eye toward workable solutions rather than unbending ideology—never haplessly accept the status quo, but always seek to expand the meaning of the American dream...