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About 45 students gathered in the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel dining hall last night to munch burritos and potato latkes to the strains of Spanish music...
Hillel participants prepared the festive Hanukkah latkes, or potato pancakes, served with applesauce...
...drive through the lush countryside, we are stunned that this island cannot feed itself. But the perversions of Soviet-style agriculture have left their legacy. To trade for Russian oil, Castro converted much of Cuba's arable land to sugar. A government bureaucrat sighs as he tells the potato story. During the cold weather in Russia, Cuba would grow potatoes and ship them all to Moscow. Then six months later, when the Russian harvest came in, Moscow would send a year's worth of potatoes back to Cuba, where they would have to be stored in huge refrigerated warehouses...
Another student questioned the method by which the audit was being conducted:by weight of the food wasted. "A potato wouldcount the same as a piece of chicken," he said...
...European nation lost proportionately more of its sons and daughters to the U.S. than Ireland: in all, some 4,250,000 from 1820 to 1920. Native-born Americans sniffed at these Gaels -- made desperate by the potato famine that devastated their homeland in the 1840s -- as filthy, bad-tempered and given to drink. The haunting, taunting employment sign NO IRISH NEED APPLY became a bitter American cliche. And yet Irish lasses made the clothmaking factories of New England hum. Irish lads built the Erie Canal, paved the highways and laid tracks for the railroads. In the South the Irish were...