Word: lait
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...undergraduates to Lamont for free food from Felipe’s and Finale, librarians prepped for another free food free-for-all by staggering the times that undergraduates could tour the Lamont Library Cafe, which opened yesterday. Though about 150 students came to sample the free espressos, cafes au lait, eclairs, fruit kebabs, and chicken salad wraps that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) employees offered to students and administrators, the event did not attract the crowds that left several hundred students out, hungry, in the cold at last year’s run on Lamont. “We weren?...
Hunter A. Maats ’04 knows a venti when he sees one. He can tell the difference between a latte and a café au lait. So a job at Starbucks would seem perfect, no? “If you have a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, you can’t work for Starbucks,” Maats says. After being rejected by the gourmet coffee trade, Maats joined up with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest...
...notion that Thakur's skin color could qualify her as unattractive is hard to fathom. Hers is a universal beauty, and in the West, despite concerns about the sun's rays and skin cancer, people spend billions of dollars trying to duplicate her caf au lait tone. But Asia, from its geishas to its Ganesha gods, has always prized the pale. And in India the desire is a national obsession. You see it in the personal ads, which range from the general ("Whitish girl invites match") to the pinpoint specific ("Suitable alliance invited for ... fair, smart, only daughter having advanced...
Even without celebrities, the message is clear: Move the merchandise. This season more than ever, designers in Milan and Paris woke up and smelled the caf au lait. Dior's star designer John Galliano created a standout show, which featured a parade of eminently buyable sculpted jackets (a big hit in the spring collections), boxy handbags and jeweled platform shoes. Galliano's runway, for once, was more about clothes than theater...
...industrial design just to cook dinner") and even Marianne, the French Uncle Sam: "This being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman." The book also imparts practical advice. If you order café au lait, beer or water at a restaurant, you're likely to get skinned; instead, demand a crème, a demi or a carafe de l'eau, as the French do. To wiggle out of a house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit...