Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German Lutheran explorer named Heinrich Earth was detained in Timbuctoo for eight months before rival political factions agreed to release him. An Arab officer in favor of Earth's execution spoke disapprovingly of Christians: "They sit like women in the bottom of their steamboats and do nothing but eat raw eggs...
...recruiting from ethnic populations is on the American scene," Malin says, adding that "if the [admissions] committee was forced to make the choice, it would be more likely to take black Americans than black Africans." According to Malin, however, the University has been able "to have its cake and eat it too" since the admissions office has stepped up U.S. minority recruitment without cutting down the number of foreign acceptances...
Explaining this phenomenon, one student says: "We know what the real stuff is like, and we resent what they present to us in disguise." Happily for most, three short months will find them back' in their homeland, where they will be able to have their cake and eat...
...limited menu offered by Harvard food services, has understandably caused problems for foreign students who have not yet adjusted to American institutional cooking. Ngozo Okonjo, a Nigerian who lives in Dunster, complains that most of the time she "can't eat the stuff." As a result, Okonjo says, she's been to the dining hall only six times this semester--and then only because her roommates reported that the menu included hamburgers, which she'll eat seasoned with butter and pepper...
...Harvard have learned to make do with greasy and bland dining hall food, just because, as Korean Ok-Hoo Hanes says, "Convenience is important." They have learned exactly which ingredients to season their salads with, and in what proportions. And to spice their daily routine even further, they occasionally eat...