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...freshman invasion has come to fruition. Now that Freshman Week is so beyond passe, the Yardlings are starting to develop precocious Harvard 'tudes of their own. None of the so-called cool frosh (oxymoron check!) will deign to eat at Annenberg, so they're flooding the House dining halls. Watch out for the scarcely postpubescent on the prowl for upperclassman friendship, fun, and more. Yech. The correct response to, "Hey baby, what's your concentration?" is to forget your tray and bus your ass out of there...
...more sophisticated crowd with whom to rock (that is, if they deign to rock with you), check out Rock'n'Roll Sushi at Gyuhama, 827 Boylston Street (Copley T-station across from Lord and Taylor). While Gyuhama often hosts Harvard's own intro Japanese class field trips during the day, the restaurant turns "cool" at night and hosts those who ditch class...
...when the two become adolescents, Han falls in love with Master Wu. Although their class differences force her to internalize her passion, she vehemently resists the assaults and presumptions of other suitors, remarking to herself that she "would but be a plant" if only the young master would deign to "water...
Food is not a topic generally accepted on serious editorial pages. It is shunted aside for domestic crisis and political intrigue, pushed to the back of Sunday magazines and relegated to Wednesday supplements. Men of power and women of means do not deign to discuss the particulars of a succulent piece of quail or the lightness of a perfectly-cooked souffle, preferring instead to jabber about the stock market or their pet poodles. They do not understand the obsession of the "foodie," the person for whom the best of life can be summed up in one divine meal...
...giant leap. For the peace process, not quite a small step. Before his election as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu had sworn he would never deign to meet Yasser Arafat, a man he considered little more than a terrorist. Last week, however, Netanyahu was finally nudged into a handshake with the Palestinian leader. It was an enormous psychological hurdle for the Israeli leader. His Palestinian partners, though, felt as if they were beginning a relationship from scratch...