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...Society was founded originally with theexplicit purpose of getting people out of the[Ph.d. octopus]," Gleason said. To achieve this,the society established an age limit of 28 forjunior fellows...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Fellows Promote Genius | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

Mariachis, octopus salad and President Neil L. Rudenstine were all part of yesterday's opening ceremony for Harvard Square's newest retail venture, The Shops by Harvard Yard...

Author: By Hillary T. Coyne, | Title: `Shops By Harvard Yard' Stages Gala Benefit | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

Yeoman service of a different sort came from bureau driver Kazuo Tsubaki, a % former octopus salesman at the vast Tokyo fish market. Recalls Makihara: "At my request, Tsubaki-san chatted up several fishmongers to find out how the imperial household collects 2,700 fresh sea bream for its six wedding banquets." Answer: it asks fishing ports nationwide to set aside their entire catch of foot-long bream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Jun. 7, 1993 | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...album kicks off with a track that never made it to Bedtime Stories, Baerwald's fine solo debut: A Secret Silken World, a chronicle of a Saturday- night pickup. Then it ricochets into The Got No Shotgun HydraHead Octopus Blues, which takes up -- with pulsing drums and crunching guitar -- the matter of reciprocal footsie between government and drug dealers. The record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Armageddons | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...predecessor, however, leaves the post with a list of issues that will need to be addressed--in many of the Harvard octopus' tentacles. "Grade inequity," is just one example, says Pilbeam...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawrence Buell Eases Into New Deanship | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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