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...eager to see that the journalists who followed her were comfortable. "Did you all get some good French food?" she asked us at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. She even had her staff push the Russian authorities to let us join her for the Bolshoi ballet--a pleasant surprise for journalists used to being kept far from the President or deprived of such galas because of his 9 p.m. bedtime...
...Witness Protection Program, comprised of six musicians and two emcees, have arguably become the biggest success story on campus. Their live instrumentation and “Dylan-esque” rhymes set them apart from most mainstream acts, making their relative stardom an especially pleasant surprise. Since opening for Jurassic 5 and Blackalicious at Amherst College more than a year ago, they’ve played The Middle East and the Paradise, as well as major venues in New York City...
...impressionistic passage from his 1930 novel The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos ’16 writes bitterly: “and all the pleasant contacts will be useful in Later Life say hello pleasantly to everybody crossing the yard/ sit looking out into the twilight of the pleasantest four years of your life/ grow cold with culture like a cup of tea forgotten between an incenseburner and a volume of Oscar Wilde.” Cambridge Octobers are cold enough. A chilly maturity will not improve them; a warm abandon will...
...meats, with the homemade pico de gallo available at the salad bar. The freshness of the tomatoes, bite of the onions and astringency of the vinegar help somewhat to cut the relentless richness of the meat. Not all of the skewers are equally desirable, however. Pork loin is pleasant, although the meat should have been cooked a little more for my taste. (The prospect of tapeworm can put a damper on even the most charming dinner.) The lamb is inconsistent—some slices are fine, others are just plain gristly and tougher than an Ec10 midterm...
...first time around wasn’t all that pleasant,” Farmer writes in an e-mail. “I mean, I laughed, I cried, and all that. But it’s very strange to be the topic of a book (I’m not even dead yet! I’m 43 years old!). And although the facts seemed right, and he caught wonderful things that I’d forgotten in the mad swirl of everyday work, I didn’t savor the book on round one. It scared...