Word: pies
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...festivities, now in their fourth year, consist of a pie-eating contest and a highly anticipated pi recitation contest. Despite a lineup that includes four of Harvard’s most arguably voracious mathematicians, no one counts on the stunning upset from first-time competitor and eleven-year-old New Hampshire resident Ryan Heden, who dominates the recitation competition with a stern, focused rendition of 387 digits of pi. “I just memorized [the digits],” Heden boasts matter-of-factly. However, memory alone can’t carry him through the pie-eating contest?...
...eating competition is the culmination of a two-day training marathon for J. Patrick Coyne ’07. “I haven’t eaten anything in the past two days except for apple pie,” Coyne, who is also a Crimson editor, says while waiting for the results. “It was just the pie and me out there...
However, despite his best efforts, third-year graduate student Erick A. Matsen is announced as the winner over a dramatic piano overture, having consumed 807.5 grams of apple pie in three minutes and 12 seconds. Matsen attributes his win to stellar mental preparation. “I actually was a runner-up last year but I hadn’t gone in believing in myself. This year, I just believed in myself,” Matsen says. However, he admits later that mental preparation is only one element of his carefully crafted battle plan. “For lunch...
...artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack should be filled by Moi! Self-Portraits in the 20th Century at the Musée du Luxembourg (March 31-July...
Three words that describe Junior Parents’ Weekend: Boston creme pie...