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...undergraduates gathered at the pub to hear Cadoux speak about his brewery and to taste four of its signature beers. Bread, cheese, nuts and fruit were paired to each beer’s distinct flavor. Last night’s monthly beer school continued the pub’s popular series begun last year that highlights a different craft brewer each month. Each session is given a theme, and last night Cadoux touched upon how he first incorporated organic products in his business. While in his dorm room in 1998, Cadoux developed the idea to brew beer himself after purchasing...
...master of Dunster House in 2001, he had already served as a top domestic policy advisor for three presidents. A faculty member at the College for decades, he was the longtime instructor of “The American Presidency,” one of Harvard’s most popular classes. But that year, he gave up a quiet family life to do something louder—live amidst hundreds of undergraduates...
Traditional favorite Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice” won gold again as the College’s most popular class, but the three most popular undergraduate courses all registered drops in enrollment. The number of students taking “Justice” fell from 1,115 last fall to 858 this year, while second-place social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics” and third-place Life Sciences 1a: “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences” each lost more than 50 students. (Ec 10 and Life Sciences 1a?...
...delicate (and very British) nuances. It's as if they still believe that silly Neil Simon tag. Better to compare Ayckbourn--who, at 61, has written nearly 60 plays and directs them himself--to another artist whose work was misunderstood in his lifetime, Alfred Hitchcock. Both worked in popular genres that had few pretensions to art--the suspense thriller and the domestic comedy. Both were technical virtuosos who loved to set themselves challenges in their chosen medium. And both managed to entertain audiences while exploring the most profound questions of human relations and values. Most filmgoers, of course, now realize...
McCain proves popular with white voters across the board, consistent with the early September findings. He is especially popular among white men, although Obama holds a seven point lead among all men in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the new poll suggests that the appeal of McCain's running mate Sarah Palin may not be as much of a game changer as some believed a month ago. Obama has a double-digit lead among women in Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania, while he ties with McCain in Montana, and is ahead only 3 points in West Virginia...