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Regardless of the admitted triviality of Mr. Suleiman's article, as a loyal patron of Tommy's, I feel compelled to answer his criticisms, and in the process address similar concerns presented by both Jeremy Lizt ("Tommy's, Noke's Are Not Even In the Pizza Game) and Dan Aibel ("The Harvard Pizza Wars...
...Aibel (March 4). He did a good job of outlining the controversy. However, he only hinted at the real crux of the matter. And it is a point that painfully eludes most of the undergraduate community. With all the rigmarole about who's the better of Tommy's and Noke's, few stop to realize: they're both pretty bad. This is a statement that I might be hesitant to make in the company of my fellow classmates, in fear of being hounded as a heretic. But I feel that I can say it to Aibel, and shall find sympathy...
When I slip him a vague query about "business in Harvard Square," he's on to my intent immediately, and offers answers remarkably similar to the ones I heard at Noke's. Except he layers his discussion with economic jargon...
...remember is the time a couple of Fox Club punchees, as part of their initiation, asked him to take a picture of them, a customer and a plastic phallus. And, he recalls, Drew Bledsoe, Jay Leno and Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans have all been in to Noke's at some point. When Bledsoe stopped by, "a lot of the customers were dumbfounded," he says with modesty in his voice, "they just couldn't believe he'd come in here, to Pinocchio...
This being Harvard, the majority of us stumble back to our rooms with a possible detour to Noke's. We feel a sense of frustration and boredom at another wasted night (no pun intended) and are left with the overwhelming realization that the Grille is essentially, as one Harvard student put it, a "necessary evil...