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Councillor David P. Maher admitted the council’s request that Harvard remit retroactive payments on the past decade’s PILOT fees was not realistic...
Sure he asked nicely. But the request was absurd. It isn’t possible to see the end zone at the closed end of the stadium while seated at that distance, and even if it were, would you really want...
...designed by a professor at the Graduate School of Design. It is, in itself, a powerful and sculptural meditation on the architectural innovations the Carpenter Center has witnessed over the previous 40 years. Perhaps the result of a seed brought by the little bird at Corbusier’s request or an element of the original design incubated beneath the building for the last 40 years, the plastic “egg” is trapped between the machine and the human: designed and output on sophisticated digital fabrication technologies, but painstakingly assembled by hand...
...invitation promised all the glamour of a final club punch party, minus the exclusivity. On cottony paper, a line of calligraphy: “The Executive Board and members of The Race, Culture and Diversity Initiative request your company at a talk with Reverend Professor Gomes about the History of Final Clubs...
...dinner classics” are, of course, dominated by different varieties of steak. I choose a filet au poivre, impressed that the wait-staff don’t even bat an eyelid when I make the oh-so uncouth request that it be cooked “well-done.” It comes out sizzling, succulent and entirely unadorned. Budget to order a few side dishes, and Atkins be damned, because a steak just isn’t a steak without some onion rings or French fries to soak up all the red-meat juices. The house specialty...