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...Whatever the numbers say now, it's hard to believe that many shoppers' maxed-out credit cards and a murky economic outlook won't cause many Americans to have a leaner Christmas this year. Gwen DiBello, 40, still made her annual trek to Saks Fifth Avenue at the upscale Dallas Galleria on the day after Thanksgiving, but the soccer mom, 40, admitted, "I'm spending less this season because money is a little tighter than in years past." Meanwhile at the Aventura Mall in suburban Miami, Raquel Babani, a 28-year-old teacher from Hallandale, said, "It's the same...
...chili-based sauce is laced with up to 30 ingredients, from almonds and sesame seeds to cinnamon and chocolate, and the mole served at Casareyna Hotel, tel: (52-222) 232 2109, is considered Puebla's best. If you've really caught the local culinary bug, make the half-hour trek to Cholula, an Aztec site where one of the world's tallest pyramids towers over a produce-packed market square. You can pick up spicy mole paste or a cup of popo - a frothy, refreshing rice-and-chocolate-spiced drink. Back in Puebla, you can learn how to prepare these...
...Harvard students can be an apathetic crowd; we’ll go to Harvard-Yale, and we’ll be there for truly special events such as the night game against Brown, but other than that, it’s hard to get us to make the trek across the river. The way it turned out this year, one of the few days we’re actually willing to do so is the one day we can’t make...
Next Saturday, Harvard students will make the trek to dirty New Haven for a long day of drinking, eating, and trash-talking. Oh, right, and something about a football game. Our intrinsic distaste for Yalies goes unquestioned, but this long-standing rivalry had to begin somewhere. Seriously, why do we hate them so much? Back in 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game of “football,” which bore a striking resemblance to soccer. Meanwhile, Harvard had been playing their own version, based roughly on the rules of rugby. Ever the football snobs, Harvard...
...kind experience. This was a man-trial by fire.” Said Woodring: “I’ve done similar things in terms of a physical nature, but not intellectual. This is like a trek, only manifested intellectually...