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...like Romaine lettuce for Mesclun—not ones that in any way come at the cost of the students’ nutrition.”The number of entrées has also been cut back for some meals, from three to two. House cooks have been filling in the line with starches on those days. “I had to put something else on the line and my options were rice and fries,” an Adams House general cook said. “There was already rice out there, so I put out the sweet...
...most beautiful is what is still unfinished / a sky filled with stars uncharted by astronomers / a sketch by Leonardo a song broken off from emotion / A pencil a brush suspended in the air”So Julia Hartwig’s “In Praise of the Unfinished” concludes, leaving her readers suspended in their own emotions. And yet this momentary captivity is liberating: while emotionally entangled, we achieve intellectual freedom by virtue of the poems. We continue on in our incomplete lives armed with the completing questions. Even at 85, Hartwig still discovers new mysteries...
...comic genius, writes a surprisingly disappointing chapter. His piece works on one gag only: at the beginning of the chapter he has an author’s note saying that his wife blacked out any words that were too revealing or defamatory. Thus, Colbert sets up the reader to fill in the blanks and let his imagination run wild. Colbert’s piece contains sentences like “_____ and I met just after college waiting on tables at _____ in _______, ________.” While this is a clever idea, Colbert’s execution lacks the raunchy details necessary...
Wisely, The OaKs resist the temptation to fill the album purely with songs describing war and its effects. Amid the intensity of tracks like “Masood” and “War Changes Everything,” numerous moments of light and hope shine through...
...question now is how that threat will be kept under control. American troop levels in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq will return this year to about the same level as 2006 - the year that saw the worst of the country's sectarian violence. Helping to fill that void, supposedly, will be former members of the Sunni insurgency: thousands have become U.S.-paid counter-insurgents and, in some cases, members of the Iraqi government security forces. Unlike the mostly Shi'ite Iraqi army and police, these Sunnis have credibility in their towns and neighborhoods and have proven effective in fighting...