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...lethal dose of almost anything,” says HMS Professor Don Coen. “High-enough doses of caffeine can certainly cause seizures, but that’s not from the kind of dose people would ordinarily take.” Bring on the double-tall espresso macchiatos...
...World Trade Center site, not far from where the Freedom Tower is set to rise. His design for that project is still a work in progress. But the prospect that the good Lord might do something at that contested site is welcome news. It means that at least one tall building there may be worth looking...
...Raymond Kinstler of New York City, also attended the ceremony. Kinstler has painted over 1,200 portraits, including paintings of five U.S. presidents and the Treasury Department’s portrait of Summers, according to the painter’s website.The portrait unveiled yesterday is more than four feet tall and depicts a vibrant-looking Rudenstine wearing a bright red robe—in contrast with the mostly subdued colors of the paintings that line the walls of the Faculty Room.“He did exactly what I hoped: no black background, no black robe,” Rudenstine...
...DIED. John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, best-selling Harvard economist and unabashed liberal who spent his career fighting "conventional wisdom," a phrase he coined in 1958; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At 203 cm tall, he was-quite literally-a big thinker. In his examination of the intertwining of economics and politics, he once termed America a "democracy of the fortunate," and his ideas underpinned U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. He was known for his witty, often acerbic directness, once noting, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." The concepts in his watershed book...
Soft lighting reflected off classic long-stemmed wine glasses, complementing tall bottles of Merlot, plates piled with Jarlsberg and Brie, and the gray-tinted chalkboard—not what one would expect on a typical Wednesday night at Harvard Law School (HLS). But for the members of In Vino Veritas, it was business as usual.“Okay, guys, we’re going to get started,” third-year law student Tom Brown, who led the wine-tasting that evening, says, clinking together two tall water bottles. Background chatter died out as the members, still students...