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...sincerest form of flattery, but some blame Obama for the lack of effective satire. Novelist Joan Didion recently told a group of New Yorkers that because of the political wunderkind, America has become an "irony-free" zone. "You know, you're allowed to laugh at him," Daily Show host Jon Stewart quipped in July to an unresponsive audience after several Obama jokes fell flat. (See the top 10 late-night gags...
There was no shortage of questions surrounding this year's United Nations climate-change summit, which began Dec. 1 in Poznan, Poland. The most obvious: Where was everyone going to stay? Only the fifth-largest city in the sixth-largest country in Europe, Poznan is a curious choice to host one of the most important international conferences of the year, with more than 10,000 delegates, scientists, activists and journalists meeting to map out the future of global climate change action...
...start the game with the same focus and intensity as they did,” Rollins said. “Too often we started halves not ready to attack and this time, it cost us.” Harvard continues nonconference play tomorrow evening, when it will host Vermont. Tip-off at Lavietes Pavilion is scheduled for 7 p.m. —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
Thirty-thousand, two-hundred, ninety six Subway restaurants are currently open around the world, and Harvard Square will soon be host to another. A Subway Restaurant will open in The Garage “somewhere in mid-January” if all goes according to schedule, said Sanjay Kansagra, the future owner of the store. “The plans are done, now it is matter of just building it,” said John P. DiGiovanni, president of Trinity Property Management, the firm that owns The Garage. According to DiGiovanni, the construction process generally takes a month...
...Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the author of several cookbooks and host of the River Cottage series on British television, also touts offal as an alternative to prime cuts. Recent episodes of the show included footage of a whole pig being butchered, with Fearnley-Whittingstall demonstrating how to cook every piece of the animal, a practice he encourages...