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...caught up in the excitement surrounding this election cycle. I have spent the past year and a half looking at results from the primaries, gazing at red and blue maps, sitting through every debate and convention speech, and worshipping Nate Silver. Since freshman fall I have been engaging in dinner table discussions with all my American friends, talking about the working-class white vote in Pennsylvania as though I grew up in Scranton...
...MISS: Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz as they present a rare dining experience, serving an elaborate 20-course dinner (with the elaborate price of $1,500) at Per Se in New York City on Nov. 11 (212-823-9450). Similar suppers will follow at Achatz's Alinea and Keller's French Laundry...
...sphere that politics has not traditionally been allowed to pervade is the dinner-table discussion. I was happy to learn that, at Harvard, people tend to openly break that “rule.” Issues are argued, ideas shared, and in-depth analysis of current events discussed during meals. Implicit in this violation there is (or should be) a collective agreement not to become offended or incensed; such dialogue ought to be valued as a learning experience, not derailed by hurt feelings...
...spirit of activism that has recently seemed to flicker. With that end in mind, we shouldn’t let the buzz around the election fade into the same, safe conversations about television or sports, but rather sustain a climate of active political discussion—even around the dinner table...
It’s 9:30 pm, and the only thing standing between my bed and me is a steaming cup of milk—straight from the cow. I’m sitting at the dinner table with my home-stay family in the Tanzanian village of Bangata. We’re all huddled around three cell phones as our source of light since the electricity went out again and I’m staring at a cup of thick, whitish liquid. There are seven of us in total, but no one is really talking. We maxed...