Word: sweets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...adage “If you build it, they will come” worked pretty well for Kevin Costner. Cut down some corn, lay down some sod and BAM! You’ve got a sweet party in your backyard. But when it comes to Harvard Yard, the story is a bit different.This past school year, Harvard embarked on a number of projects geared towards expanding social space, including undertakings as diverse as the $4.5 million Queen’s Head pub and the Harvard College Women’s Center. But designing a social space that caters...
...national biking champion, for example. Or maybe the national competitive eating champion, putting away 50% of my body weight. I’d even settle for being the national champion of Mario Kart: Double Dash or Super Smash Bros. Anything, really, that would get me a sweet belt like those guys from...
...because everyone knows it. I used to do it with my friends as a joke at parties...but I was always Romeo because I knew the lines. Chris Hanley: Oh great. Now I can see you mumbling as I say the words. LB: “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Originally I wanted to do it almost sarcastically, to cut against the cliché, and Jennie [Isreal] said, “No. You have to do it in a way that really makes it real, as if it’s the first time you?...
...part of the show would be demo-ing sticky buns in front of an audience, so they got a group of students from Harvard to be the audience. In the middle of the demo, Bobby Flay walks in and I realized that it was not the ‘Sweet Treats’ episode—it was ‘Throwdown,’” she said. “I was very surprised...
...came to power in 1999, Venezuela had been a trend-bucking oasis for Big Oil. Venezuela did nationalize its oil industry in 1976, but in the 1990s it had steadily reopened its fields to foreign investment - in some cases handing the multinationals deals that even conservative Venezuelans considered too sweet. Chavez has just as steadily, and stridently, reversed that policy, paring down the multinationals' ownership while ratcheting up their taxes and royalties. And because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign crude supplier - providing the U.S. with almost 15% of its oil imports - each turn of his nationalization screw tends...