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...Elizabeth Cohen found herself in a house in upstate New York balancing a new baby, Ava, and her father, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, by herself. Her husband had lasted nine weeks in the menage, then departed for the winter. But as Cohen records in The House on Beartown Road (Random House; 256 pages), a curious symmetry emerged out of the chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones...
...season from late winter to early spring, blood oranges are the fruit of the moment. They have a rich taste with hints of raspberry, and the scarlet flesh makes for dramatic jams and juices. Their spicy undertones make them popular with chefs like John Villa of New York City's Patroon, who uses blood oranges to make his duck a l'orange. Irish chef Darina Allen features a blood orange, beet and arugula salad in her new Ballymaloe Cooking School Cookbook. When buying blood oranges, choose fruits that are firm and heavy and have a sweet, clear fragrance. Store them...
Helene T. Nguyen ’05 plans to “defrost” from the lingering winter weather in Cambridge on her upcoming vacation to Fort Lauderdale...
...past month, in the academic equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, students and faculty have faced off with administrators against the backdrop of an educational Armageddon. Looming over us was not the threat of a nuclear winter, but that of an academic wasteland, devoid of choice and opportunity. But last week, in an unexpected maneuver reminiscent of Khrushchev’s withdrawal from Cuba, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby backed down...
...winter long, juniors Adam Gordon, Brian Garcia and Matt Fratto and senior Rodney Thomas have been the Crimson’s special guests in practice, going head-to-head against Hana Peljto, Reka Cserny and the rest of the Ivy League champs. Junior Ben Cluff, who plays junior varsity hoops, is also a regular on this Dream Team of scout teams...