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...their recalled selections. Bars of that variety with a sell-by date of July 25, 2009—well within the affected date range—remained on Lamont café shelves last Thursday. “It’s kind of disturbing,” said Iram A. Nadroo, a second year Divinity School student who says that she often sees students buying food from the café. Harvard University Dining Services spokeswoman Crista Martin said that HUDS, which counts Lamont Library cafe among its retail dining locations, uses a “sophisticated system of notification?...
Maybe not. But it does need foreign aid, and booting a mid-level U.S. embassy messenger out of your country isn't the best way to cultivate it. Either way, this is the kind of atmosphere Obama will fly into in April when he attends his first regional summit, the Summit of the Americas, in Trinidad. It's instructive to note that Astorga's offending letter was dated Jan. 8 - while former President Bush, whose hemispheric policy was as ham-handed as any in memory, was still in office. Obama's first job in Trinidad is to convince the Latin...
...Laika story is one of a father's indulgence, Coraline's is about a mother's indifference. It's exactly the kind of book/movie that a writer/animator would dream up to convince his kids that, no matter how much he ignored them while he was doing his important work, they're better off in this family than in any they may dream of joining. As Gaiman puts it, "sometimes the people who love you may not pay you all the attention you need; and sometimes the people who do pay you attention may not love you in the healthiest...
...Every kind of film critic was represented: the loves-it-all USA Today type, the can’t-stand-anything-but-artsy New York Times type, the bitter-because-I’d-rather-be-writing-scripts L.A. Times type, and everything in between. Those endowed with press or corporate passes blew by the long lines that grouped outside the theaters, but for once, nobody seemed to mind. Despite the wintry weather, the cinematic discourse continued on between strangers and new acquaintances unabated...
...immunology to chemical engineering—and explained that if they were willing to refocus their efforts on AIDS research, he had the funding to cover it. “These are people that made their reputations in other fields,” Walker said. “That kind of new perspective is what we’re really counting on.” Arup K. Chakraborty, head of the Chemical Engineering department at MIT, was another of the many local scientists tapped by Walker to join the institute, even though he had no direct experience with AIDS research...