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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There was no lack of creativity at this year’s “Imagine, Invent, Impact: Harvard College Innovation Challenge,” sponsored by Harvard Entrepreneurial Forum, Harvard Student Agencies, and Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. The business suit was a rare sight as a sweatshirt-donning college crowd filled Fong auditorium to half capacity on Saturday...
...charm, entirely at ease with his own unease. Muhammad Ali, sensing someone who got the joke about himself, called Plimpton "Kennedy," while the actual Kennedys welcomed him into their lives as a confidant. It was Plimpton, at Bobby's side, who wrestled the gun away from Sirhan Sirhan, a rare example of sadness that he did not mine for storytelling...
...rare example of an election in the Arab world which was indisputably free and fair, the Islamist Hamas movement won a shock victory over Fatah, the party which had, in effect, ruled the Palestinian people for a generation. Before the election, much of the coverage by the western media, the BBC included, had focused on the issue of Hamas standing in the election at all. Branded a terrorist organisation by Israel, America, and much of Europe, Hamas had carried out dozens of suicide attacks inside Israel, killing hundreds of civilians...
...stomach, only to reach for seconds. I’ve nibbled pickled jellyfish and chomped on wild boar. Squeamishness, clearly, is not something I’ve been accused of. But John Barlow’s latest food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food-writing venture, catalogues his quest to eat the whole hog in a yearlong journey through Galicia?...
...mixture of these pop icons, each of whom has proven masterful on a singular level (yes, even the porn stars), is not only toxic, but pitiful. While isolated moments prove funny—mostly because they’re outrageous—the film is a total flop, a rare tapestry of hilarious individuals who flounder in the wake of inexcusably bad writing, a terrible plot, and unbearable clichés. The setting is Monroeville, Pa., a typically gritty Smith-style suburb in which vulgarity seeps out of the gutters. Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are the archetypal faux...