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...Days in the Hills (Knopf; 445 pages), a leisurely stretch of talking and rutting that takes its structure from The Decameron and a good part of its spirit from The Kama Sutra. Let's start with The Decameron. In Boccaccio's 14th century compendium of tales, 10 people depart Florence, where the Black Death is raging, for two weeks of food, drink and storytelling in the Tuscan countryside. In Smiley's update, the Iraq war stands in for the plague. Los Angeles, the silkier parts, plays Tuscany. As the war begins, 10 people find themselves in Max's spacious house...
...Eight two years ago. Longer, the press box consensus went, than any college women’s hockey game save one, shorter than only four games on the men’s side. The game lasted so long the band, Harvard’s most vocal supporters, had to depart Conte Forum after the first overtime, in order to catch a ride home. “There is no moral victory,” Stone repeats. Only a loss and the disappointment. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...sate the appetites of ravenous late arrivals—grilled cheese sandwiches were particularly popular items that night. And hunched over a sizzling frying pan flipping grilled cheeses, I can honestly say that I was having fun. At 11p.m., the overnight volunteers strolled in and it was time to depart...
...king’s ransom to attend Harvard, in part so that we can learn from the most accomplished scholars on Earth. We travel here from across the globe to revel in their magnificence, and, by osmosis, to try to take some of their wisdom with us when we depart to better serve our country and McKinsey...
...academy marked a welcome transition. He remembers walking to and from class after his postwar return and noticing the inscription on Dexter gate, which tells entrants to the Yard to “Enter to grow in wisdom” and people leaving to “Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind.” “I thought that was appropriate,” he says.In the end, Harvard had an indomitable advantage in winning its returning students over to its more inclusive ways. When asked about his opinion...