Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greenhouse Cafe. Over chocolate chip pancakes, crispy hash browns and an omelet, lie. Mention offhand that the dining hall is rumored to have come under suspicion from the Massachusetts Health Inspection Board. *Ching: $25 in Greenhouse gift certificates, good for that late-night carrot cake hankering...
...Greenhouse Cafe. Over chocolate chip pancakes, crispy hash browns and an omelet, lie. Mention offhand that the dining hall is rumored to have come under suspicion from the Massachusetts Health Inspection Board. *Ching: $25 in Greenhouse gift certificates, good for that late-night carrot cake hankering...
Cuomo cautioned that we cannot expect heroes to arise on their own. But that doesn't mean that heroism lies beyond our grasp. It simply means that we should be willing NOT to be heroes, to acknowledge that our most exalted role might lie, instead, in softening the ground so that future heroes will have a place to grow. When they hear that Cuomo came to Harvard to speak about "the liberal agenda," too many people probably assumed that they had heard it all before, and that if it was all old news, who needed it? Those people, no matter...
...Hall should be restored to its proper glory?" he queried. Perhaps I am alone, but I actually think that restoring Mem. Hall to its pre 1956 days could wait, at least until, for example, undergraduates are no longer needed to TF courses. Knowles' announcement illustrates quite starkly where priorities lie--in this typical case, with "glory" and not with quality. Of course, $4 million is just a drop in Harvard's bucket and this particular gift was earmarked for the purpose of restoring the tower, so Mem. Hall doesn't have to wait. And it should not--as long...
...famous for their feuds. When Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy in the 1950s, the political elite chose sides, and some still aren't speaking. After novelist Mary McCarthy called playwright Lillian Hellman a liar--or, more precisely, said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"--the literary crowd split in two. They're at it again. That rumbling out of Washington is the sound of a new chattering class feud--and unaligned wordsmiths had better head for the hills...