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Crystal Farh ’05 and Kate Ward ’05 brought a gift for Summers—homemade chocolate chip cookies baked in the Matthews Hall basement...
...roommates successfully used a similar strategy to meet people during freshman week, Ward said...
...President Bill Clinton launched air strikes against Iraq during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, the press had a field day comparing the situation to the Robert DeNiro satire Wag the Dog, in which the fictional president commissions the production of a fake war in order to ward off scandal. A year later, when two high school students murdered more than a dozen of their peers at Columbine High School, the movie industry was quickly assailed for films such as The Basketball Diaries, which were said to have served as the model for the shootings...
...Hopwood decisions, and work to keep higher education inclusive while staying within the letter of the law. But opponents of affirmative action are crying foul. It's hard for anyone to object to some of the milder efforts--like letters of encouragement to minority applicants. But Ward Connerly, the California regent who wrote Proposition 209, argues that many of the ideas being proposed in California, like reducing the academic track, are "designed to be proxies for points"--ways of tipping the scales without engaging in the kind of blatant favoritism struck down in Georgia...
...menu has "bacon and eggs," "chips and dip," "coffee and donuts" and even "macaroni and cheese." But this mac and cheese consists of orzo in coral oil with mascarpone topped with lobster and a parmesan chip. As intricate and deliberate as Keller's cooking is, he's desperate to ward off the gravitas. "Coming to a restaurant like this can be intimidating. And that's the last thing I want," he says. "I don't want people to come here afraid, like it's some kind of temple of gastronomy. It's just a restaurant. Coffee and doughnuts...