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...left incomplete. 8. FM: Word on the street is that you are a pretty snappy dresser. Say you’re having a one-on-one meeting with President Drew G. Faust. What would you wear?MK: I would wear a dark blue suit, a vibrant tie and French cuffs. 9. FM: And what would you say?MK: I wouldn’t say anything, because what she’s experiencing right now is more profound and compelling than what I’m experiencing. I would sit and listen to what she had to tell me, and then...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Matthew B. Kaiser | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...cheese frosting rather than Felipe’s burritos as a late-night snack; giving cupcakes as pick-me-ups to friends the night before their finals; and realizing I had integrated a discussion of cupcakes into otherwise unrelated conversations. Witnessing withdrawal symptoms when forced to replace cupcakes with French pastries during my junior fall abroad in France.And then, I embraced the obsession.As one of the countless Harvard undergraduates living in New York last summer, I leapt at the chance to leave my Midwestern roots and live in the country’s most populous city. But beyond the world...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cupcake Queen | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...think that it’s a building that you actually have to experience and spend some time in it before you should be expected to make a decision about whether or not you like it.” The Carpenter Center is the only building designed by Swiss-French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, in North America. Rumor has it that Corbusier came to see the building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.WIDENER...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If These Halls Could Talk | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...think that it’s a building that you actually have to experience and spend some time in it before you should be expected to make a decision about whether or not you like it.” The Carpenter Center is the only building designed by Swiss-French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, in North America. Rumor has it that Corbusier came to see the building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.Widener...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What You Didn't Know About the Yard | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

Following decades of debate over the nation's wartime history, France's highest judicial body has formally ruled that the French state bears moral and legal responsibility for the deportation of nearly 76,000 Jews during the nation's WWII occupation. In doing so, the court officially recognized the willful participation of France's collaborationist Vichy government in anti-Semitic persecution that had long been attributed to Nazi occupying powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the French Ruling on WWII Deportations of Jews | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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