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...nutrition facts; they were about proving how much better and more elegant we were than everyone else. Whither went our intricately carved wooden chairs? Our tables crafted from aged, solid oak covered in soft, silken tablecloths? Our bow-tied and jacketed service staff? The degrading and dishonorable concept of self-service—requesting our own meals on high-tech kiosks, for example—had as large a place in this elegant world of silk and mahogany as women did on the student side of the kitchen door...
...recent release of the third "Shrek" installment demonstrates, fairy tale satires are hardly a new concept. However, the creators of this year's Hasty Pudding show, set in a fairy tale land gone bad, are aiming to offer a fresh take on the genre, complete with signature Pudding style.For its 160th production, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) will perform "Fable Attraction," which features such characters as a communist-minded Little Red Riding Hood and Mia Pharaoh, a villainous, mummified Egyptian queen. This year's script and lyrics were co-written by Kathleen H. Chen '09 and William Brian C. Polk...
...constitute the institution that in turn defines our possibilities. Accountability to the future encompasses special accountability to our students, for they are our most important purpose and legacy. And we are responsible not just to and for this university, Harvard, at this moment, 2007, but to the very concept of the university as it has evolved over nearly a millennium...
...knows what they're looking for. Anyway, says designer Avanzi - who has had a relationship with McDonald's for almost 10 years and helped bring it together with Fritz Hansen - the use of reproductions seems to go against the food chain's vision for its redesigned restaurants. "The concept was to be authentic, and McDonald's was in perfect agreement with that," he says. "I don't feel betrayed, but poorly misunderstood by a few people in England who didn't understand the importance of staying authentic. This was something extremely clumsy, which the English are going to have...
...need-blind admissions policy, part of its commitment to the belief that no student capable of attending Harvard should be prevented from doing so by a lack of funds. According to Bok, Harvard stayed true to its need-blind policy throughout the 1970s, even as other institutions abandoned the concept. Bolstered by alumni support, Harvard stuck to its guns through years of inflation, tuition increases, and low returns on its endowment. In 1979, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) embarked on a five-year capital campaign focusing on the College, hoping to bring in $250 million. The campaign...