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...less intense note, with each college first battling it out locally over a spicy but meatless burrito, complete with Nantucket Nectars. The teams with the fastest times then moved on to the semi-finals and finals at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston. There they faced the same task with a more daunting obstacle: a burrito con carne...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burrito Bros Go Pro | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Mason’s task is a bold one. After all, few read Homer’s “Odyssey” with the nagging feeling that something is missing from the story, and the epic is a touchstone for tales of travel and homecoming. As early as the first century BCE, Vergil was borrowing from the Greek epic to tell his own “Aeneid”; Leopold Bloom’s very different wandering in “Ulysses” set the bar almost impossibly high for modern adaptations. Mason’s book, then...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mason Reinvents Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in ‘The Lost Books’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Winter’s Night a Traveler,” and the distorted views of Venice in “Invisible Cities” find their match in Mason’s ever-refracted portrait of Odysseus. Both authors leave the reader with the task of sorting through their sketches. Like Calvino, Mason trades in shadows...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mason Reinvents Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in ‘The Lost Books’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Curry proved he was up to the task. The freshman’s ability to create looks for his teammates and score himself was instrumental to the Crimson?...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Fiery Speech Sparks Second-Half Rally | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

Novey, who bills himself as Burgerman, plans to run the Boston Marathon in April while wearing a burger costume. Having made a killer YouTube video, he’s asking individuals and businesses to give him money to complete the wacky task, hoping to raise $100,000 to benefit the charity Citizen Schools...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet Burgerman | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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