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Once Kitcho's discreet doors finally slid open, it was a lesson in omotenashi, or no-holds-barred hospitality. No detail would be overlooked to make us feel welcome and the experience exceptional. Likewise, we had to fulfill our part of the deal by being appreciative clients. Like a tango, kaiseki is a collaboration between host and guest...
...Cambridge last year, the Boston Police Department and Harvard administrators organized the strictest Harvard-Yale tailgate in recent memory. Regulations and checkpoints were everywhere. Every last detail was proactively enforced. Students were not allowed to bring any liquids into the event area, and students over 21 were required to receive a wrist band in order to be able to purchase beer and spiked hot chocolate (a policy repeated at Yale’s “student village” but not at the entire tailgate...
...deemed exports”—the use of sensitive technology, such as advanced encryption software, by foreign nationals—and would have increased licensing requirements for foreigners conducting science and engineering research on American campuses. O’Keefe declined to discuss the recommendations in greater detail, citing a desire to “give the Commerce Department an opportunity to comment on it.” The Commerce Department has not yet received the report, according to Mario Mancuso ’91, the under secretary of commerce for industry and security. Mancuso said...
...world is staring at China. It is not only awaiting the extravaganza of the coming Olympic flame, but also scrutinizing every minute detail of China’s governmental and environmental wrongs. Instead of progress and achievement, the world sees a polluted country unable to stop choking on its own secondhand smoke. Such negative publicity may serve to bring awareness to China’s gilded image in the wake of Beijing 2008, but it does not do justice to China and its efforts at change...
...offered him one, and he said he couldn’t because he was on duty,” Haut said. This was the first Game at Yale since Connecticut criminalized the possession of alcohol on private property by those under 21. Yale doubled its security detail from the 2005 Game and increased the number of on-site toilets tenfold, according to a widely forwarded e-mail sent by Yale sophomore Kyle Briscoe, a member of the Calhoun College Council. In addition, Yale limited the music to one official DJ, located in the Yale tailgate area. Ryan M. Travia, Harvard?...