Word: perfection
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...that Ian Fleming started this franchise with a real sense of taste - if you'll pardon the pun - for fine living and nice drinks," says Tom Sisson, director of the New York Bartending School. "People notice what Bond orders." (TIME travels to London to learn how to make the perfect Vesper Martini...
...Harvard sailing team impressed in its final tune-up before this weekend’s Atlantic Coast Championships, going a perfect 19-0 in the Michael Horn Trophy Team Race. Sailing at home once again proved beneficial to the Crimson, who was the decisive victor of the regatta. For the first 10 races, skippers and co-captains Jon Garrity and Megan Watson were joined by sophomore skipper John Stokes, sophomore crews Grace Charles and Meghan Wareham, and junior crew Michelle Konstadt. Sophomore skippers Alan Palmer and Teddy Himler led the way in the final nine races, alongside freshman skipper Emily...
...gotta do the rock band,’” Kultgen said. For Start, Go!, the Battle turned out to be a surprisingly auspicious beginning. Chris Powers, the singer, song-writer and guitarist for Start, Go! said their first performance together was exhilarating but not perfect. Powers, a senior computer science major at the Extension School, broke a guitar string in the middle of a song. He had a spare, but he didn’t realize that guitar’s jack was broken. He finished the set with the broken string. The glitch did not prevent Start...
...Economist of the World Bank, and a Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton. Far from requiring on-the-job training, Summers could begin guiding economic policy from his first day in office, a point that cannot be undervalued in this time of urgent economic peril.Like everyone else, Summers is not perfect. His manner can be brusque, and he does have something of a proclivity for saying the very wrong thing at the very wrong time. In short, he is not the consummate politician. But this is not the time to allow the narrative of one of our generation?...
...could be the difference-maker in terms of a Crimson Ivy championship repeat—though Brown’s loss to Yale Saturday affords Harvard a shot at a share of the title. But going into the home stretch of the Ivy schedule, the Crimson will have to perfect its special teams play for its final contests at Penn and against Yale at home. The Quakers’ top returner, defensive back Chris Wynn, averages about 20 punt return yards per game and 50 kick return yards per game, and Penn leads the league in both average punt return...