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...Harvard students are certainly not unfamiliar with sleep deprivation. The article stated that varsity athletes, representing about 20 percent of undergraduates, seem to be the only sizable student category to sleep and rise at roughly conventional hours, according to Harry R. Lewis ’68, professor of computer science and former dean of Harvard College...
...Chocolate soja.” It sounded muy español. It sounded sexy. It sounded good. What was soja? A word that our practical Spanish classes had never bothered to cover. But one of the lessons one quickly learns in Spain is that unfamiliar words often yield tasty results. So we ordered dos chocolates sojas, and then plopped down at a rickety table, primly pleased with our authenticity—“How terribly continental...
...come February, Sterritt will not find herself on wholly unfamiliar ground. She served as assistant dean of freshmen and associate dean of freshmen for academic affairs in the Freshman Dean’s Office from 1996 to 2000. Sterritt was also a lecturer on romance languages and literatures...
When Tiger Woods won his first Masters Tournament, Jack Nicklaus famously quoted Bobby Jones by saying that “he plays a game of which I am not familiar.” The aftermath of the recent Tiger Woods scandal has left Tiger in a situation extremely unfamiliar to him. What started out as a news story that covered Woods’s health when he got into a late-night car accident outside his home in Windermere, Fla., quickly turned into speculation about his family and personal life. While some of the details have been blurred surrounding...
...date of the Bulgarian artist Christo, whom Jeanne-Claude met in Paris in 1958. At the time, Christo was already making enigmatic wrapped artworks out of things like packages and oil drums. It was a gesture rooted in the Surrealist insight that it was possible to make familiar objects unfamiliar--and by that token strangely fascinating. The two would soon marry and form a creative partnership...