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...Somewhere between the frantic name games and M&M-spiked trail mix, I began to think that I might survive the trip with minimal traumatic flashbacks. After the desolate expanses of Texas and New Mexico, New Hampshire seemed cute to me (a word I was never to use again after watching the horror cross my fellow hikers’ faces). The fact that the group leaders would elaborately “bear-trap” our supplies every night when we were only a few miles from the highway was endearing rather than intimidating. The earnestness of New England camping...
...uneven bricks and cobblestones weren’t treacherous enough, the wintry mix coating the campus is making getting to lecture (or worse—wobbling to final clubs in heels) downright perilous. But don’t add trendy tractional hiking boots to your non-denominational holiday gift list yet—FM went to UHS to see how much danger we’re really in. “In terms of slipping and falling on the ice or something, you’re probably going to be more concerned with the elderly, people who might break their...
...Barack Obama would emerge only after short speeches from his wife Michelle and his friend Oprah. Winfrey used her patented mix of girlfriend-style dish ("When Gayle and I talk... mmmm-mmm... we also talk about real things...") and campaign-style sermonizing ("Experience... means nothing unless that person is accountable for the judgments they made during the time they had.") That recipe was calibrated to reassure the audience that neither Oprah nor Obama was compromising here - that Obama's ambition to be a candidate of nobility would not be diminished by Oprah's status as a consumer guide. She even...
...recipe for success is as follows: Gather lots of featured performers (mostly Wu-Tang buddies), throw in a bunch of story-tracks, a couple sentimental songs, one celebratory hymn, and at least one skit that takes place at a high-profile event, add hokey accents to taste, and mix gently. But even if this recipe were good enough to thrill every time (which it isn’t), the ingredients this time around just aren’t as fresh. —Reviewer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...oscillating fans. She previously presented her concept this summer in New York City’s Union Square, but the outdoor space was not ideal. The enclosed area of the Brattle provides a predictable environment, but it also brings up new ostacles.According to Dickerson, a major concern was the mixing of different smells.“Our mistress of ceremonies described it as, ‘You know when you eat an apple pie and then some chicken and then a pizza and all those things mix in your stomach and then you throw them up? Well, potentially, that?...