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Yesterday was Easter, the day that marks the end of the 40-day season of Lent. For Christians, Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. On this day, they believe, three days after his crucifixion on Good Friday, Jesus rose from the dead. Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians.In this season of Lent, I was reminded of the absence of visible Christian faith at Harvard. As secular student organizations across campus planned Passover seders last week, there was at best little talk of Easter celebration, and at worst disrespect. Last Tuesday, Harvard?...
...Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, one of the few left under the jurisdiction of the long-ailing Orleans Parish School Board, undergraduates worked on a mosaic, placing cracked tiles onto walls. Some fourth and fifth graders lent a hand...
...Alice Waters launched the American culinary revolution in the 1970s by trumpeting fresh ingredients above all. Twenty years later, Batali performed a neat trick. He made the revolution feel young and hip again--he was just 32 when Pň opened--and his respect for traditional Italian cuisine also lent his food a sense of history uncommon to American restaurant fare; Batali has always said most of his dishes are mere reinventions of old--in some cases ancient--Italian recipes...
Statistics released by the organizers of this year’s petition showed that Leverett House led all upperclassman Houses in signatures and that 33 faculty members had lent their names to the effort...
...Silverstein’s works into something that amused because it seemed plausible. This subtlety was apparent from the opening scene, “One Tennis Shoe,” in which Michael I. Levin-Gesundheit ’08’s earnestness in the role of Harvey lent humorous believability to the appearance of absurd objects such as a purse filled with cooked oatmeal. Both directors and actors are to be commended for their ability to walk the fine line between zaniness and implausibility. Particularly arresting were Michael R. Von Korff ’07?...