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...manager of John F. Kerry’s cookie store, Sarah Leah Chase ’79 remembers slicing her hand while chopping a rock-hard, frozen slab of butter back in the days before either she or Kerry, now a Mass. senator and Democratic presidential candidate, were popular icons...
...posters in every dining hall proclaim that we are being treated to an increased variety of “hand fruit,” yet, every day, the fruit is the same—two varieties of inedible apples (in apple season!), oranges, banana, and the occasional rock-hard pear. A traditional HUDS healthy and delicious menu item, lox at Sunday brunch, has not made an appearance at Mather House, and I’ve been told by the staff that it’s been cut from the HUDS menu for good. And hot breakfast, the start...
...competitions, annual industry sales, now about j300 million, could explode. The European market seems ripe as cash-strapped clubs look for cost-effective ways to keep their pitches playable through the European winter. In the '80s, some clubs tried plastic pitches, but abandoned the idea because of the rock-hard surface and the sky-high bounce of the ball. However, things could turn again. Early this month, English Premiership clubs Chelsea and Charlton Athletic played a match on a pitch that was so heavily sanded that commentators referred to the game as "beach football." The incident fueled speculation that...
...Complaining about tonight’s Brain Break. “Like, why can’t I just get a plain bagel? What’s this rock-hard thing covered in seeds...
...screaming fans. "It was bloody awful," Harrison told biographer Geoffrey Giuliano. "Some journalist had apparently dug up an old quote of John's that I was fond of jelly babies and had written about it in his column. That night we were absolutely pelted ... Imagine waves of rock-hard little bullets raining down on you from the sky. Every now and then one would hit a string on my guitar and plonk off a bad note as I was trying to play. From then on, everywhere we went it was exactly the same...