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Asmara 739 Massachusetts Ave. Central Square If you were to rank the senses involved in restaurant dining, touch would surely wind up at the bottom of the list (although this should in no way appear to deny the legitimacy of the sandwich as a culinary art). After all, restaurant etiquette instructs us to keep our fingers as far away from our food as possible. But for those whose natural instinct is to dig in and get real with your meal, I heartily recommend Asmara. Opened in 1986, Asmara was Boston’s first Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurant. Although their...
Once pearls were considered far more valuable than diamonds, since only 1 in 10,000 oysters may contain a round natural pearl. In Roman times, pearls were so sought after and expensive that Julius Caesar barred women below a certain rank from wearing them. It wasn't until Kokichi Mikimoto, founder of Mikimoto pearls, successfully cultured pearls in the early 1900s that they could be easily matched and made into necklaces (before that, it could take up to 10 years to find enough matching pearls to make a strand). It was Coco Chanel who exploited the discovery of cultured pearls...
...University of Limerick booth, Nidhi Kapur, a middle-class mother from Delhi, sat looking over courses for her 17-year-old son Kartavya. The gap between India's top schools and the next rank of universities is huge, she explained. For a B- or C-grade student like her son, "you still want a good, solid, branded university, but the options are limited in India," despite the fact that "every family would spend anything it can for education. We're happy to give up comfortable living if it means our children will go to a good school...
...Sullivan said. “Some of it is getting sorted out.” On the season, Pusar, who has shown the ability to drive to the basket, is shooting 60 percent from the floor and averaging 5.0 points per game. His nine assists rank third on the team. Before the season, when asked what he was looking for in his third guard, Sullivan said, “We need a [third guard] who can make the extra pass, who can get to the basket, and, more importantly, guard people.” Pusar has done all three...
Daniel Golden reveals in “The Price of Admission” that Harvard admissions officers rank “Asian American candidates on average below whites in ‘personal qualities,’” as well as frequently comment that they are “‘quiet/shy” and “hard workers.” Without evidence to substantiate these generalizations, these comments smack of a self-fulfilling stereotype: Admissions officers expect Asian applicants to have such qualities, and therefore see these in them more so than they...