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...food awareness. “The Japanese are much further ahead than we are in terms of appreciation of food,” McCulla admitted. Like us, they emphasize local and seasonal food—most of Japan’s produce is locally grown. Chestnuts, pumpkins, mushrooms and sweet potatoes, in-season treats, regularly adorned every dish. McCulla observed that the students’ meals were balanced and they never left waste on their trays. And call me a cynic, but the pumpkin patch visits that HUDS sponsors don’t make me feel any greater connection...
...just seven games of conference play, each Saturday brings a sense of urgency, each win or loss a sense of finality.We approach the home stretch of the season, and the race for first place in the Ancient Eight is tightening to suffocating proportions.So while the rest of us get Sweet n’ Nasty, visit Heaven and Hell, and then return to school not much changed, we should have a little sympathy for Harvard and the other Ivy League teams seeking that top spot. We can afford to mess up this weekend. They can’t.HARVARD...
...gathered to hear Wood’s talk last night. Though attended by few Harvard students, the lecture was packed with aspiring writers and local fans, who scribbled in notebooks or flipped through books as they waited for him to arrive. “He’s pretty sweet,” said Alex Kalamaroff, a Boston public school substitute teacher who sits in on Wood’s lectures at Harvard in his spare time. “My problem with book reviews is that I’d rather read books. [But] Even Philip Roth?...
...sociability far beyond his childhood into his college years. “Peter is no longer here, but I still see him smiling,” Cai’s mother, Ming Ding, fondly said of her son, an Adams House resident. “I can hear his sweet voice, saying ‘Hi, Mom!’” Li, Cai’s girlfriend, stood out from the black-clad congregation, choosing to wear a green shirt and jeans because “Peter’s favorite color was green, and he loved when...
...watered-down version of “The Color Purple,” you can excuse “The Simple Life of Bees” for its lack of complexity and instead sit back and appreciate the simplicity of the lessons, the vibrant characters, and the pure and sweet story that nowadays seems like such an anomaly...