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...title of Pico Iyer's fine, rich and heady first novel, Cuba and the Night (Knopf; 234 pages; $22), comes from a line of poetry written by Josa Mart?: "Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche" (Two fatherlands have I: Cuba and the night). The implication being, and it is one the novel endorses, that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent...
...attempt to become a living yo-yo by indulging in bungee jumping: I'm just glad the string didn't break...
...exclusive rights to sell Duncan yo-yos in Israel: My partner and I just called them up and they gave them to us. After two weeks, my partner went into the army and left me with a thousand yo-yos. I made a lot of money. People would stop me in the street and say, "Hey, aren't you the yo-yo man?" They never knew a yo-yo could do more than just go up and down before then...
...dance and vocal performance in Sanders Theater was followed by a food festival with over 20 student-run booths at the Science Center and the Greenhouse Cafe. Entertainment at the festival was provided by singers, dancers, Brazilian martial artists and even a demonstration of the Chinese yo-yo by Crimson editor Jennifer...
Currier has not been completely overcome byfro-yo fervor; there are a few skeptics. CathyHultin '96 put chocolate frozen yogurt into hercoffee and observed that "it separated into twolayers. It makes you wonder what chemicals are init." Dan Grossman '95 refuses to believe thatfrozen yogurt contains no fat. And some peoplejust don't like the stuff; for thesetraditionalists, fortunately, there is still goodol' ice cream...