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...Plough and Stars
...Plough and Stars is a Cambridge standard, the oldest Irish pub in Boston (or so the locals say). Walking in, it’s easy to see why it’s still around. The place just smells like a pub, a sublime combination of wood, beer, and stew. Those who take a seat at the bar join the company of such serious thinkers and major drinkers as Van Morrison and G-Love and Special Sauce. Tread softly if the conversation turns to politics, though: “the Plough and Stars” was the standard of the Irish...
...courses’ reading lists are inflated—taking a regular course load implies upwards of a few hundred pages of reading a week, and part of our self-definition and pride as overachieving students stems from our ability to plough through an entire Henry James novel or Freud treatise in one night. Occasionally professors admit that we are not really expected to read all of the material; and some teaching fellows suggest that the trick is to read one part of the assignment very carefully, and skim the rest. But the assignments remain, and as we rush through...
...have hit on the less-than-acquisitive solution of partnering with companies that may have a blockbuster in the works. Last month it struck an alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop and sell an experimental diabetes drug, a joint venture similar to the one Merck formed with Schering-Plough for cholesterol treatments Zetia and Vytorin...
...missed you,” it lacks some of the subtlety of other presidents’ playful poems—one is reminded of John Quincy Adams’ (Class of 1787) translations of Horace (“What though he plough the billowy deep/ By lunar light, or solar./ Meet the resistless Simoon’s sweep,/ Or iceberg circumpolar.”)—still, it is good to know that our president has some poetry in him. Making the assumption that, like most of his output, the president’s poetry is overseen...