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...recent grape debate is only an extreme example of this persistent pattern. As the Wall Street Journal noted in its December 10 article on the Harvard grape controversy, "The recent ferment at Harvard is odd, if only because the grape boycott had pretty much died on the vine elsewhere." In fact, the grape boycotts (1967-70, 1973-78) succeeded, leading one to wonder why were we still at it only a week...
Faculty members cite the "intellectual ferment" sweeping the campus as proof that Jiang's visit will benefit Harvard...
...There has been not enough time to ferment and intoxicate the culture in America," says Richard Gere. "But our approach, because we're so new at it, has a certain eagerness and excitement that you sometimes don't see in the Tibetans. Westerners ask questions. They take notes...
...customers, brewing the beer stretches over a twoweek period, Pzena says. Customers first boil the mixture for two hours and then allow it to ferment for a week. The beer is stored for an additional week in a cold storage room, and then lovingly bottled by customers. Pzena even provides patrons with the option of designing their own bottle labels...
...revival in American culture. Says Robert Alter, whose masterly new translation of Genesis was published last month: "Moyers has hit upon an idea whose time has come. At this moment of post-cold war confusion about where we're going as a civilization, with all kinds of murky religious ferment, it makes sense to do some stocktaking. Let's go back to the book that started the whole shebang...