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...they go?” Seo said. At least one enthusiastic attendee went even further to demonstrate her Oktoberfest spirit by dressing up. Susana Bejar ’08, clad in a light blue “Bavarian beer wench” costume with white stockings, held a glass stein of German beer which she described as “really good.” Perhaps the most surprising exhortation of the night came from a self-professed Yalie. Chris J. Hanson, now attending Harvard Divinity School, said, “My parents are very jingoistic Yalies and they love...
...point during my preparations for a commissioned project with the ICA [Institute of Contemporary Art] Boston, I was at a loss regarding the specific attributes of a certain type of glass I wanted to use,” she recalled. “Over lunch, I discussed this with my fellow Radcliffe fellows, and was pointed, via the fields of chemistry and physics, in the right direction...
...squat, short, and bloated creature, reminiscent of a turkey crossed with an albatross, stands immobile behind the glass in Harvard’s Natural History Museum. The display’s other extinct birds, such as the puffin-life Great Auk, attest to this one’s rarity. But Harvard’s dodo hides a darker secret.“It’s just a replica made from duck and chicken feathers,” said Jeremiah Trimble, the curatorial associate in ornithology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology who dusts the model from...
...careers opposing Federalism, attacking the Constitution when it was up for ratification and joining Thomas Jefferson's small-government Republican Party (ancestor of today's Democrats). But by 1812, the Federalists had lost three presidential elections in a row, and Clinton had become convinced that his party had a glass ceiling for non-Virginians (Uncle George having been relegated to the vice presidency by the rise of James Madison). Most important, Federalists opposed the War of 1812 against Britain, since a British naval blockade would ruin their commercial base, and Clinton was against it too. So the Federalists endorsed Clinton...
...Franck Riboud says "the new Danone" will be "the most beautiful food platform you can imagine." Danone's cookie divestiture completed a transformation that has given the former conglomerate a clear focus. To get there, the company has undergone a radical change. In 1996 Danone was selling beer, glass, frozen food, pasta sauces, candies, Italian cheese, cookies, dairy products and water. Riboud, who took over the business from his famous industrialist father Antoine that year (the family controls less than 0.5% of the shares), decided in 1997 to refocus the company, which began its conglomerate life as a glassmaker called...