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...making the inevitable an accomplished fact kept taking thousands of lives. Hitler's last big offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, crashed through U.S. lines in the snow-covered Ardennes Forest just before Christmas of 1944. When the battle was over, the Germans had suffered more than 100,000 casualties, the Allies 81 ,000. From then on, the German retreat never really stopped. U.S. forces seized the Remagen bridge and swarmed across the Rhine in March. Frankfurt fell, then Karlsruhe. The Soviets took Vienna on April...
...Chiang's anti-Communist policy was in large part an act of self-defense. Had Mao's forces won in the '30s, Chiang and his colleagues would surely have been executed. Estimates of those killed in the famine vary widely, Seagrave acknowledges, but Chiang's pro-Communist antagonist Edgar Snow places it at a million, so a million it is. Seagrave's enemies' enemies are invariably his friends: thus Ching-ling, the family's black sheep, is portrayed as a "transcendent beauty" and the Red Army is found worthy of "authentic heroism." By contrast, "Chiang at his best was pathologically...
...eggs. Does it really help to add salt to egg whites before beating them? Will searing meat seal in juices during the roasting? In fact, performing these rituals may reassure the cook but will accomplish little else. Salt actually increases the whipping time required to turn egg whites into snow, and it decreases the stability of the final result. Searing meat does nothing to retain juices, although it does improve the flavor...
...month that started out with threats for snow, things are sure looking up. The sun is shining, midterms are mostly over, and everyone is more physically attractive than they were two weeks ago. In light of studies that report undergrads at Harvard may not enjoy themselves as much as their counterparts at other schools, I suggest we rethink what we’re doing here...
Brendan D. B. Hodge ’07, a Crimson editorial comper, is a government concentrator in Cabot House.In a month that started out with threats for snow, things are sure looking up. The sun is shining, midterms are mostly over, and everyone is more physically attractive than they were two weeks ago. In light of studies that report undergrads at Harvard may not enjoy themselves as much as their counterparts at other schools, I suggest we rethink what we’re doing here...