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...Whif, an inhalable chocolate in three flavors (mint, raspberry, and dark chocolate!) is touring the House dining halls this week as a preview to the opening of The Laboratory at Harvard. Find out more (and see a video of Le Whif) after the jump...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama | Title: Laboratory of Arts and Sciences | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...Last year, the SVP proposed another piece of legislation that would give the people, not the government, the final say in naturalization procedures. Its campaign poster depicted five dark-colored hands grabbing a stack of Swiss passports. That initiative was overwhelmingly defeated at the polls, with more than 63% of people voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Switzerland Vote to Ban Minarets on Mosques? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...Dark was the day that it ceased to be true that all crimes of equal magnitude were equally tragic, no matter the gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation of the victim, for that day also marked the transition from the tradition that crimes are an offense against society to the view that crimes are only an offense against the groups with whom the victim is associated. Ironically, this treatment of crime widens the chasms between groups rather than narrows them, for it actually perpetuates and legitimizes the belief that society is composed of compartmentalized groups instead of fundamentally similar individuals...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: More Equal Than Others | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...robbery and an elusive woman named Joan Rosen Klein. Each protagonist is searching for something related to both Ms. Klein and the crime, a search that carries them all down a communal path of violence, hatred, and destruction. Ellroy’s is a well-crafted foray into the dark-side of America, but the author’s attempt at absolute historic totality hinders the novels complete success. Ellroy’s desire to account for almost every day in the book’s nine-year time span causes the narrative to drag, and because of the novel?...

Author: By Heather D. Michaels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Rover' Runs Red, if Overlong | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...account of the era orients the readers in the plot and leaves them with a true sense of the anger, both righteous and profane, that highlighted the period. Ellroy’s distinctive style—the brief, spare syntax reminiscent of hardboiled detective fiction—sets a dark tone for the novel and lends itself to this retelling of history. Yet, while the history is interesting, the unfolding of the mystery of the robbery and Joan Klein dictates the pace of the novel, and there Ellroy falls short...

Author: By Heather D. Michaels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Rover' Runs Red, if Overlong | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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