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Comedor
… Billed as “creative Chilean cuisine mixed with a dose of American ingenuity,” the dishes at Comedor begged to be deciphered. It turns out … specials featured fried chicken ($13) cooled with a dollop of Meyer lemon labne and a zippy, fresh strawberry salsa …
Issue: September-October 2018
Very Young Beauty Queens
… Some distress here: on the stage, the two-year-old girl in the pink-sequined dress … The mother takes the tot by the hand and drags her off. Meanwhile an announcer offers some background: this young contestant hails from …
Chapter & Verse
… Whitefoord Cole requests the name of the author and full text of the fragment “Would that I may awake from my wine-sleep, …
Issue: July-August 2009
Arts First
… “The artist is always working with mingled gladness and … written and directed by Damien Chazelle, was the recipient of seven Golden Globe awards, including Best Original Score … goes to print, I will be eagerly waiting to see how many of our Academy Award nominees—five by my count—take home …
Issue: March-April 2017
Bears, Oars, Metaphors
… While studying with Kurt Vonnegut at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the late 1960s, John Casey ’61, LL.B. ’65, enjoyed quite a range of experiences. A neighboring farmer taught him to castrate … to his Uncle Drew, a highly cultured gay man and denizen of the Left Bank who, with two of his equally cosmopolitan …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Scares Michigan State
… With a stunning 29-11 run in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team brought … one was taking them lightly. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, one of the college game’s top coaches, said he didn’t relish … a roll, using their speed and size to convert an early rash of Harvard turnovers into fast-break points. State’s …
Fitness: Body and Mind
… effects on mental acuity and motor ability, says professor of molecular and cellular biology Joshua Sanes , director of the Center for Brain Science . But just how these changes …
Issue: November-December 2010
Harvard Great Performances: Andrew Fischer ’16
… Saturday would have been the 137th edition of The Game. But for the first time since the wartime year of 1944, it will not be played. (Harvard trails, 60-68-8.) …
Chapter & Verse
… Jeffrey Tigay hopes someone can provide the source of an anecdote involving a Latin correspondence … by replying with a single letter, i (Go!—the imperative of ire ). Wayles Brown asks whether William S. Gilbert was …
Issue: September-October 2017
Approaching Arabic
… Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character,” John Stuart Mill said in his first speech as …
Solar Sculptor
… On the front lawn of the U.S. vice-presidential residence in Washington, D.C., … from the nation’s most precise clock, sits another type of timepiece. Its measurements are approximate, its hour …
Issue: May-June 2008
Thought, Feeling, and Purpose
… A decade after the Harvard Divinity School’s founding in 1816, William Ellery Channing spoke at the dedication of Divinity Hall. “We want more than knowledge,” he said. “We want force of thought, feeling, and purpose . . . We want powerful …
Issue: September-October 2016
Eeded: Ew President
… In the spring of 1970 the Fellows of the College began a search for a successor to …
A Cancer Battlefield Glossary
… that split ATP into ADP, phosphate, and energy, which is then available for cellular functions such as mitosis (cell division).  amino acid: Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that are the building …
Issue: January-February 2007
Gore Boosts a Greener Harvard
… ’94, spoke about sustainability to a packed Tercentenary Theatre on October 22; the former vice president, who has … September-October 2008, page 57). His speech capped a week of events emphasizing environmental stewardship, ranging … fuels. When you pull that thread,” he said, “all of these crises begin to unravel and you hold in your hand the …
Issue: January-February 2009