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Flying in a seaplane up the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia you see little but forested hills, a myriad of islands and the blue waters of the narrow channel that runs from Seattle to the Alaska Panhandle. As the plane drops over a ridge, a floating hut appears, anchored in the channel and nestled in a grid of net-covered pens. It all looks innocuous enough--no smoking chimneys, no visible plumes of discharge, no growling of chainsaws, not even a road...
...when the weather was less than ideal, bobbled snaps and botched punts were aplenty as a myriad of special teams mishaps characterized a gritty game...
...when the weather was less than ideal, bobbled snaps and botched punts were aplenty as a myriad of special teams mishaps characterized a gritty game...
...mean for the diner? The Algerian chef, Krimo Dahim, explained that Algerian food is known for being sweet, not as spicy as Tunisian. When he cooks, he says, he likes to balance all the flavors. And I could taste it in the food. There was a complexity of seasonings, myriad spices melding to make one unique taste, but always with an undertone of sweetness...
...amongst vast swathes of the Harvard community that varsity athletes are largely dunces who are only allowed to associate with their hallowed intellectual classmates by the grace of God and the recruiting strategies of Satan. I am surely no varsity athlete, but I understand their frustration when faced with myriad attacks from these ranks of sniveling intellectual snobs, still bitter about being chosen last in middle school gym class and reveling in their chance for revenge. Player-haters take note: athletics should have every bit as important a role to play in undergraduate life at Harvard as academics...