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...make things worse, the kid was good, and the swooning of a Harvard girl a few seats away from me, whose crush on Davis caused her to actively root against the Crimson whenever he was in the game, brought back memories of every conversation I’ve had that started like this: “Look, you’re a really nice guy, but?...
...librarian George E. Clark said after the talk that people need to change their perspective. “There needs to be a shift from the human perspective to the natural one,” he said. “Think about how many environmental problems are at the root of social problems.” —Staff writer Carola A. Cintron-Arroyo can be reached at ccintron@fas.harvard.edu...
...trio sounded ever so slightly defensive as they protected the role of science in their kitchens. Brandishing a loaf of bread like an amulet, Adrià, chef of el Bulli restaurant in Spain (judged the best restaurant in the world a record four times by Restaurant magazine), located the root of the problem in a kind of public ignorance. "Today, you've got bakers working to find the best flour, the best yeast, the best oven. This is science, pure and simple. But people still say they're shocked if science participates in cooking...
...Israel was facing rising international outrage over its Gaza offensive, in which, according to Palestinian health workers, nearly one-third of those killed were women and children. In trying to root out Hamas fighters, Israel subjected the Gaza Strip, which teems with more than 1.5 million Palestinians, to scorching fire from aircraft, naval gunships, artillery, tanks and troops backed by helicopter gunships...
...which retard the development of Black inner city communities: joblessness, social isolation, social decay and discrimination. But in addition to all this these communities are in the midst of a kulturekamph of Black-on-Black violence which is a direct result of the political crisis of fatherlessness. At the root of the instability of the Black ghettos is the fact that there is not a functional patrilineal system that governs the communal life by physically maintaining order as occurs in other working class neighborhoods, regardless of race or ethnicity. When the fathers are absent, as a political fact of life...