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...recognizing that whether or no they want the new name is a moot point. Nevertheless, they find that it is hard to rename a place that is such an integral part of their lives. "There's no way I would wear a Pforzheimer House t-shirt," says Alynda D. Wheat '96. Grounding her position in true North pride, Wheat adds, "I'm going to graduate from North House--no one in our class, nor anyone now living in the house, will ever call it Pforzheimer...
There are other reasons to object to the change, Wheat argues. She claims that renaming the North House Mail Center the Pforzheimer House Mail Center will cause postal problems. "Our mail will be screwed up for the longest time," Wheat says...
...Somalia shows a soldier standing in front of a police station at Belet Huen and responding with a grin to questions about the peacekeepers' role in helping starving Somali children. ``There's no one starving here, O.K.?'' the trooper replies. ``This is where 150 people hang out and eat wheat. They never work. They're slobs. And they stink.'' Another soldier calls the U.N. peacekeeping mission ``Operation Snatch N ____...Hold...
Sadly, in the food revolution as in everything else, the poor are getting stuck with the greasy end of the stick. The affluent like to gorge on the kinds of high-fiber, heart-smart foods that were once relegated to the global peasantry: polenta, lentils, kale, bulgur wheat. Meanwhile, the fat-filled, heart-dumb foods once favored by kings and courtiers have been sedimenting down the socioeconomic scale. And, oh, the joys of nouveau low-income food, in its ever more wanton and promiscuous forms -- fries topped with melted cheese spread, nachos topped with everything, burritos buried in sour cream...
...upset but resolved," Wheat added. "We know we can't fight the University...