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...don’t recall the exact moment that New York City became a part of my cultural consciousness, but for as long as I can remember, it’s existed there as a magical possibility. Growing up in Silicon Valley—where computer chips tend to garner far more excitement than “impractical” things like poetry—the idea of a place in which people gather round the ashtray Saturday nights to discuss Kafka’s lost manuscripts seemed incredible. Sure, that initial perception may have been laughably idealistic...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bright Lights, Big Pity | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...both of our amazement, the cookies were pretty good. Hourihan had also assumed they would come out an inedible mess. "Everybody who bakes tells you it's about exact measurements. But there's still room for play," she says. "It was better than a lot of the chocolate-chip recipes I've tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...exact content of this piecemeal, second effort is not yet known. The White House has so far declined to spell out its wishes. On Oct. 14, Obama announced his desire to give seniors onetime checks for $250 in lieu of any cost-of-living increase in Social Security checks this year. The checks, costing about $14 billion, would be paid for with an increase in payroll taxes for people with incomes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Readies a Stealth Stimulus | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...hard? It's supposed to be a Core!") or catch up in one sitting on the whole last month's worth of reading for Paul Farmer's upcoming exam, FlyBy suggests that you take a break and go outside—down by the river, to be exact...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider | Title: The Real Reasons to Check Out HOTC | 10/17/2009 | See Source »

...digitization work, which will be funded by the NLC but conducted by Harvard librarians, will also allow all of the items in the collection to be examined for damage and treated for conservation if necessary. Harvard and NLC representatives declined to disclose the project’s exact price tag but said that it would cost millions of dollars...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard College Library, China Form Pact | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

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