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...first sign of trouble comes around two hours from Eldoret in the hills of Kenya's Rift Valley. Several pine trees have been felled across the road, forcing a detour through the forest. A few minutes later, we come across a road-sign barrier bent across the highway. "You cannot imagine that this is Kenya," mutters Preston, my driver. We come to several more roadblocks manned by men sitting by the side of the road. Their breath smells of banana beer, and they want money and news of Nairobi. Some of them check Preston's tribe. I congratulate myself...
...Season’s Greetings: PfoHo residents got into a heated debate about the Christmas tree in their dining hall. Guess Santa won’t be stopping there. 2) Currier got pretty pissed that Mather stole their wreaths. Christmas is just not the same without the fake pine. 3) Eliotites doesn’t want to eat “poo-shaped” fro-yo, even though HUDS claimed the star-shaped dispensers are less sanitary. 4) XOXO, Gossip Girl: Lowell can’t get enough of that show. But seriously, isn’t that...
...Grossman wrote the iPhone story and edited the entire package. Anita Hamilton and Maryanne Murray Buechner wrote many of the articles, Andrea Dorfman kept everything organized, and Belinda Luscombe explains what Warren Buffett has to do with the future of undergarments. Finally, deputy art director D.W. Pine and photo editor Jay Colton gave the section its sleek look--as Apple has proved, when you're dealing with complex technology, you can't overestimate the importance of good, clean design...
...still not comfortable with historians and Harvard professors declaiming in documentaries about their love of the Olde Towne Team. And the Sox themselves have been so slovenly - helmets covered in pine tar, caps caked in resin, their sweatshirt-loving manager never seen in his uniform top - even Oscar Madison is embarrassed...
Although none of us was actually alive during this golden age of true elegance, we pine for it no less strenuously, and wish HUDS would devote its superfluous expenditures to recreating Harvard’s classic gold coast experience rather than to installing newfangled machines. If we’re to truly honor the second Gilded Age in which we live, HUDS should put away the television monitors and kiosks and break out the gold leafing and bowties...