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...defrosting alright, but the lip was so small that it was dripping right down into the tomato sauce.”He chuckles about it now, but at the time, Fallon somberly insisted that the restaurant dispose of the sauce immediately.Critical violations such as these are not the norm in Harvard Square, where five to seven violations per visit is commonplace.A minimum of twice a year, sanitation inspectors visit the 588 food establishments in Cambridge, including restaurants, convenience, and grocery stores—and even Harvard dining halls—to check for a variety of conditions, from whether food...
...help during one hospital admission were presented as a fresh, hopeful idea the next time. If that could happen to a doctor's wife in a top hospital, he says, "I wonder more than ever what the average must be like. The errors were not rare. They were the norm...
...made of organic cotton, which she sold in Europe. "People were really into what we were doing then," she says. "There was a real void in the market." She calls her customer a "metro-naturalist: someone who is artistic and urban, self-expressive and makes choices out of the norm...
...others, do a reasonably good job in tending to their flocks. But the larger point is that the intellectual culture at Harvard discourages identification, public or otherwise, with Christianity in the way it does not with Muslims, Hindus, or Jews. One might argue that because Christianity was the old norm and now pervades our culture, it does not need protection in the way Harvard’s newer religions do. But this is to mistake the debate, which is not about protection and tolerance, but about equal respect. Without respect, Harvard’s Christians will always curtain a part...
...never a rebel: she venerated her father, a shy man with a stutter who was thrust into kingship by the abdication but mastered his task through hard work. During her wartime adolescence, the idea of obedience and doing one's duty for the greater good was the norm. She really meant it when she said at age 21 that "my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service," and has not changed her core old-fashioned values. But for the monarchy as an institution, she is averse to risk, not to change itself...