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...HUDS has actually increased their presence in the dining halls in the face of higher costs. Rather than remove the most nutritional options from dining halls in favor of cheaper, unhealthful alternatives, HUDS should cut back on its least nutritional fare, such as desserts, sugary cereals, and French fries. HUDS should also preserve healthful options like whole-wheat pizza, brown rice, and organic peanut butter, as well as the already limited organic and vegetarian fare. In defense of HUDS’ menu changes, HUDS representatives have framed rising food prices as a universal problem. This may be true, but other...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Case of the Vanishing Food | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

...sudden move to reform French Holocaust education, French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced in February an unprecedented new curriculum for fifth graders learning about the Holocaust. Every fifth-grade classroom in France will henceforth be assigned to a French child-victim of the Holocaust, about whose life the students will be required to learn. If Sarkozy’s personal life and politics were under fire before, his new mandate has sparked a conflagration. But despite the criticisms of the French left, Sarkozy’s heart seems to be in the right place—it is his planning that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Too Frank | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

...Simpsons” has been banned in France ever since an episode was based there in the first season. Reiss was philosophical about this loss. “It’s not a hit in France,” he said. “Because the French suck.” While entertaining the packed Beren Hall at Hillel, Reiss revealed that half of the show’s writers are Harvard graduates. “People in Hollywood call us the Harvard mafia,” Reiss said. “At least the mafia has a code...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Homer After Harvard | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...opened, Concepts already has an impressive variety of merchandise. As you walk into the store, the left wall is covered with all sorts of Nike, New Balance, and Lacoste sneakers. They also claim to be one of the few stores on the east coast to carry Spring Court, the French brand of shoes that John Lennon wore on the “Abbey Road” album cover. The right wall of the store is lined with up-and-coming trends in male apparel. Some of the real gems in this collection are high-end Levis that can?...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOTSPOTS: Concepts | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Although English was his third language—he picked up French and Spanish early in his continent-hopping cosmopolitan childhood—he was renowned for his erudite, highly refined, and idiosyncratic prose, often ridiculed by detractors as “sesquipedalian.” The son of an oil-baron millionaire, he attended posh private schools in Paris, London, and New York, and graduated from Yale a talented and ambitious young writer...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: The End of an Era | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

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