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...finally outgrown its awkward phase. Gone are the arbitrary iMacs and math CAs in perplexing hats; they’ve been replaced with leather couches and a bar. The large, handsome space is replete with sturdy booths and flat-screen TVs. Each nooks and cranny has its own peculiar charm. One corner of the room is dedicated to games. Another corner has a small library. Yet another is home to Harvard’s trophy collection. Its walls are adorned with Harvard curios in just the right proportion of nerdiness and pretension. So if you were wondering over buffalo wings...
...will, belittling her desire for the simplest of material possessions, then expecting her to comply when he turns from amorous husband to platonic companion to apparent adulterer. Gandhi took on a magnetic personality in the presence of young women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments of sleeping and bathing naked together, without touching, all apparently to strengthen his chastity. (Whether these experiments were always successful is anyone's guess.) It is also revealed that Gandhi began a romantic liaison with Saraladevi Chaudhurani, niece of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore-a disclosure that has created...
...phenomenon by writers for whom it’s never clear if they’ve ever read an issue cover-to-cover or even at all,” says Greif. “If you’re producing stuff it becomes very peculiar and ultimately kind of dangerous to listen to people who talk about you as some alienated presence. If you could go to your readers and they would stand up and denounce you, then you really have something.”FUTURE IMPERFECTDespite all the attention the journal has received, a future of longevity...
...limited to within Harvard’s walls. Faust ought to begin by committing our own campus to the highest of standards. But to ignore our transformative influence on the outside world is to default on the responsibility that the Harvard presidency carries. Today environmentalism occupies a peculiar place between research and action; it is gathering steam but its whistle has not yet rung. It awaits its champions. It has found one in Al Gore; it could use many others. As she sets the tone for academic institutions everywhere, Faust can show the world that the environment must...
...long as the Breaux question remains unsettled, it appears that Louisiana may be headed for another milestone: Jindal, if he succeeds the state's first woman governor, would become the nation's first Indian-American governor. But Louisiana's peculiar open primary system, in which candidates of all parties vie for a spot in the November runoff election, has a way of producing surprises; throw the lingering effects of Katrina in the mix, and anything is possible. Just ask Kathleen Blanco...