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...decided to go into the restaurant industry over the last few bites of the best ham and cheese sandwich I had ever tasted. It was actually more like a roll-up. Or a wrap, perhaps, if you imagine the familiar thin tortilla-like casing replaced with extra fluffy crust-free white bread devoid of any hint of soggyness despite its precarious position spiraled perfectly around melted cheese and thin, warm ham. It was cut in half, placed on a platter of crispy, hand-cut, lightly salted potato chips and set in front of me in the bar room...

Author: By Rebecca A. Kaden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gourmet Food For Thought | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...which were liquidated by exhibition visitors before they were disconnected from the wall). The increasingly common problem, however, is that they no longer really inspire shock, merely a curled lip of disgust, a bemused head-shake, or a shrug—it’s all wearing a bit thin...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Tabloid Art | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...Foster ’11, a black panelist, said that “in black culture, the thick girl is the idealized girl,” while event organizer Theresa H. Cheng ’08 talked about how Chinese culture focused not only on being pale and thin, but also on the “double eyelid phenomenon.” The double eyelid, which varies in preponderance and degree in Asians, makes the eye appear larger; as a result, the demand for cosmetic surgery among Asians has increased in order to create the trait. Along with weight-related...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Race and Beauty | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...prize, the Black and White made an impressive showing in this Ivy battle, winning the third varsity four. The morning skies cleared just in time for the varsity eight race to kick off a pleasant day for racing. In the varsity eight race, the Tigers held on to a thin, three-second margin to win over the Black and White, finishing in 7:13.8 seconds. “Princeton is year to year one of the top teams in lightweight crew and I think that the [first varsity] did very, very well against them,” co-captain Katharine...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Princeton Edges Eight, Four Soars | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...imminent release of the results may be a result of increasing pressure from African leaders to resolve the crisis. And although analysts had expected that after the four-week delay, the result would give Mugabe a razor-thin majority, forcing a run-off that the ruling party would then try to win through violent intimidation, the fact that the recount upheld the opposition parliamentary victory may have revised pessimistic expectations. "I think it's going to be very difficult for them to announce anything other than a Tsvangirai win tomorrow," Zimbabwean human rights activist Elinor Sisulu told TIME from South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Mugabe's Foes Turned the Tide? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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