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...sprinkling of cheddar cheese on his plate of soy beans, black beans, and pinto beans, backed off, jumping ship for vegetarianism. Months later, I’m now the only one in our dining club who has the pleasure of enjoying either fowl or four-legged friend.Why the sudden switch away from the comfort of swallowed creatures? Neither had rediscovered his dog-eared copy of Charlotte’s Web this summer. Both city-born kids decided to eschew real chewing because of the environmental damage caused by the transportation and raising of animals. Sitting at the meat-free table...
...windy afternoon nearly 150 years ago, Harvard professor James Russell Lowell, class of 1838, started on his daily walk from the University to the offices of the magazine he edited. As he crossed the Charles, a sudden gust disrupted his routine—and that of his newly-founded magazine, “The Atlantic Monthly.” The wind blew Lowell’s top hat off his head and into the river, carrying away the magazine manuscripts he stored...
...caucusgoers is relatively small - 124,000 turned up four years ago. And they tend to make up their minds late; 2004 exit polls indicated 4 in 10 made their decisions in the last week before the caucuses. What's more, everyone's calculations can be thrown off by a sudden ice storm - or, this time, by the fact that the caucuses are coming on the heels of the holiday season, while colleges are on winter break, and on the same night that a Midwestern team could be playing in the Orange Bowl...
...Colombian union leaders. "Without that pressure from the U.S. the Colombian government would not be acting to clear up these cases and seek convictions," says Jose Luciano Sanin, director of the Escuela Nacional Sindical, a labor rights group that tracks violence against Colombia's labor movement. "All of a sudden, with this external pressure, impunity in union cases has become a priority because it is a condition for approval...
...sudden death overtime win is a storyline that practically writes itself. But amidst one of the most exciting wins for the Harvard men’s hockey team this year—a 2-1 overtime thriller over Boston University—I didn’t feel like I was at a college hockey game as I sat in the press box of the Agganis Arena across the river in Boston. And it wasn’t just that I felt like a big shot as I sat with reporters from major newspapers in the luxurious press...