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...them in. Poles wonder if you’d like some more potatoes. So, it seems I’m in for a potatoey summer, but should you decide to visit, you won’t find me complaining. Here, the tea may be Lipton and the coffee instant, but the potatoes are nothing short of divine.Thomas B. Dolinger ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is teaching English in Stalowa Wola and, in his spare time, pondering potatoes...

Author: By Thomas B. Dolinger, | Title: A Starch Diet | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...lose the game to the referee. Elvis Ahanonu Jos, Nigeria time recommended giving football the same number of officials as tennis and rugby matches use. But just one more assistant referee with a TV set would be enough. Referee errors get more annoying as TV coverage matures to perfection: instant slow-motion replays from different angles show exactly whether a foul was real or faked, a hand blocked a shot from scoring, or a player stood offside. Everyone can see what really happened, except the referee who has to make the call. The referee reviewing the video replay could communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eton Reinvents Itself | 7/11/2006 | See Source »

...pieces that I saw as most important had to do with the complexity of the situation and the length of time that this process will continue. He's very clear that we're not going to see an instant solution. He's also clear about his role: it is to call people to conversation, not to intervene in diocesan or provincial life--which some people have been asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Katharine Jefferts Schori | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...Globe also quoted Joseph Rappa, the director of the Massachusetts Office of Educational Quality and Accountability, as saying that the School Committee is misguided in “looking for the instant return” and that under Fowler-Finn, the district is “on the road to improving...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: News From the Schools | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...while the nation mourned the assassinated President William McKinley, Alice, 17, was "filled with an extreme rapture," she later said. Her father's rise to the presidency brought the attention-hungry teen instant celebrity and fashion-icon status. "Princess Alice," as she was dubbed, embarked on a diplomatic mission to Japan with then Secretary of War William Howard Taft, diving into the ship's pool fully clothed, attending sumo wrestling matches and enchanting the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alice Roosevelt Longworth: An American Princess | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

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