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...period-insane dinner proved again for me, some of the most enjoyable social moments come from a fellow diner’s desire to consume an entire bowl of jam, or another’s wish to become “the salt fairy,” spreading salt-shaker goodness, or having a friend there to laugh at you even when your jokes no longer make any sort of sense.Common complaint number two: “I hate my TF/core class/annoying professor.”For the first time in four years, I nominated a professor...
...Steelmaker and World Shaker Why are Europeans so upset over Mittal Steel's bid to merge with Arcelor [Feb. 13]? Where I come from, Western companies have gobbled up local firms - and entire industries, for that matter - and that's supposed to be just fine. It's disturbing to see that when someone from the developing world tries to set foot in the West, the move is always met with convoluted and unfounded criticism. The West has got to recognize that globalization, formerly a one-way street, now carries heavy traffic from the East. I guess that is what laissez...
JOSHEPH M. TARTAKOFF ’07 of Shaker Heights, Ohio and Dunster House Executive Editor...
Levenson, 95, has no time to worry. He is busy with his current project, a three-panel portrayal of the Civil War at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., where since 1990 he has painted 17 historical murals. (Among his other subjects: the Shaker sect, Native Americans and a New England fair.) He is also writing a book on the history of drawing, teaching female inmates at a Vermont state prison how to make a landscape mural and starting sketches for a portrait commission. Oh, and this fall he's off on a Fulbright fellowship to Colombia...
...together, husband and wife Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, plus bassist James McNew, have been praised more than Philip Roth and sold only slightly more records. These three discs are the perfect way to discover a band that swings wildly between exuberant lo-fi noisemaking (The Story of Jazz, Shaker) and some of the best adult love songs of the past decade (Stockholm Syndrome, Tears Are in Your Eyes). They're proof that maturity and fun are not mutually exclusive...