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Finally, the College should reform the celebrations surrounding Commencement to gear them toward families of modest means. The senior clambake ("Lobster or prime rib, clams, corn soft drinks, beer and more!" my schedule announces,) costs $25 per plate. For the nuclear family of two parents, two children and a pair of grandparents, this meal adds another $150 to the already substantial cost of Commencement...
...catholic taste (the $100,000 prize is an American creation, but half of the winners have been from abroad). The 1990 Pritzker laureate, announced this week, should only redouble the prize's prestige: Italy's Aldo Rossi, 58, has inspired and influenced a generation of younger architects, despite a modest built oeuvre. Rossi's work, as the Pritzker judges declare in their citation, "is at once bold and ordinary, original without being novel, refreshingly simple in appearance but extremely complex in content and meaning...
...friends and sources, including the jovial, rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make, it must be regarded, under the circumstances, as a valiant...
...allow for the advancement of the young and the restless and to improve the management of the magazine. Grosvenor's reply was to name William P.E. Graves, 63, to replace Garrett at the top editor's post, thus seeming to signal a return to more predictable stories and modest aspirations. Said one depressed insider: "It's like a morgue over there right now, and everybody's just wandering around in a stupor wondering what they're going to do next...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will try to extend its modest two-game EIBL winning streak when it hits the road this weekend to meet up with Army Saturday and Columbia Sunday...Captain Tom Konjoyan--who missed yesterday's action because of an injury caused by fouling a ball off his left ankle against Penn last Sunday--will be available to play this weekend...