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When Dave Schaps took over the Great Harvest Bread franchise in Evanston, Ill., in 2002, carbs were comfort food. Hunkering down with a thick-crusted, aromatic loaf somehow made Americans feel safer at home in the months after the 9/11 attacks. Today bread is bad, and it is the beleaguered baker who is seeking solace, both emotionally and economically. "We've just added soup and cookies. You have to diversify to keep the doors open," says Schaps, noting that bread sales fell 10% last year...
...Daniel must leave for Ireland to depose the staff and absorb the breathtaking vistas. After imbibing a little too much of local flavor, the couple wakes up in bed together sporting makeshift wedding rings and the totally improbable belief that whatever they did to get those wedding rings is somehow legally binding. When they return to New York and the prying eyes of the New York tabloid press, they fake being married lest their careers suffer. They fake it til they make it, of course, though they’re basically faking it all along...
Kristina N. Vetter ’04, co-chair of Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) combats the idea that Harvard is somehow to blame. She writes in an email, “Harvard does not ‘cause’ eating disorders in its students, but many students bring eating disorders or the tendency toward them to this campus. I do think that this college is populated by highly talented and often competitive students whose desire to excel in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in extracurricular activities is often paralleled by a similar commitment...
...common perception that all conservatives think alike is closely tied to the idea of the “vast right-wing conspiracy”—that conservatives are somehow a sinister force. It implies that there is something deeply troubling, even wrong, about their beliefs. I remember the disgusted looks I received in my Justice section: people simply couldn’t believe that a Harvard student actually disagreed that taxes were an intrinsic moral good...
...concert, the screaming female next to me had somehow managed to get Busta’s sidekick to throw her his towel. As she wiped the sweat off of her body with his sweaty towel, I broke for the door determined to conduct my damn interview. Alas, by the time I made it out of the crowd, Busta had disappeared into the Hip Hop sunset...