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...future of the UC. The evening resulted in at least one high-profile donation, as Gross concluded his speech at the symposium by handing the UC a check, representing what he called a “small contribution.” (UC members declined to reveal the exact amount Gross gave.) Former UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 said in his keynote speech at the banquet that a desire to serve the student body and improve the College ties UC members together. “It’s that commitment that carried us through the past...
...charity stripe. The back-to-back weekend wins should give Harvard some much-needed confidence heading into next weekend’s road trip against Cornell and Columbia.After losing a heartbreaker in the last 30 seconds against the league leading Big Red, the Crimson will be motivated to exact revenge. With shooting, Harvard has become a far more formidable opponent than that crimson-clad team that trotted out through much of the winter. —Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...eccentric inventor was prevailed upon to create a device that pedestrians could carry in order to exact the most possible inconvenience to other people and threaten the most sensitive parts of the human body, it’s likely that the end result would look much like an umbrella. With its deadly metal spikes spreading around at eye-level from an enormously cumbersome circumference, the umbrella is perfectly designed for destruction. Part ninja shuriken, part medieval buckler, and part retiarius’s net, the umbrella is a deadly tool in the hands of the sidewalk bumbler...
...consequences of this suburbanization are enormous. Think of how the U.S. was transformed, economically and socially, in the years after World War II, when GIs returned home and formed families that then fanned out to the suburbs. The comparison is not exact, of course, but it's compelling enough. The effects of China's suburbanization are just beginning to ripple across Chinese society and the global economy. It's easy to understand the persistent strength in commodity prices - steel, copper, lumber, oil - when you realize that in Emerald Riverside construction crews used more than three tons of steel...
...said. “Atkins? No carbohydrates. Vegetarianism? No meat. This approach is where we really get in trouble. A traditional Italian would never think that way.”This reductionist approach has reached new extremes. Over-obsession with calorie counts and micronutrient contents—exactly what HUDS is trying to avoid by putting away the placards, is itself a disease, orthorexia. Akin to obsessive-compulsive disorder, orthorexia (meaning literally “correct appetite”) is characterized by an unhealthy fixation on healthy eating and was first identified by Dr. Steven Bratman in 1997. HUDS...