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Al Fresco Dining
… Smack in the center of Watertown Square is an established Italian … Stellina ( www.stellinarestaurant.com ; 617-924-9475). The interior boasts an appealing, wood-paneled, Arts and … brick patio with lovely plantings. A wooden fence, softened by a fragrant grape arbor to one side, and the …
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Issue: July-August 2009
Shore Appointed Vice President for Finance
… appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer. The text of the University's news release appears here . A news story …
Football: Harvard 37, Pennsylvania 20
… In their wisdom, the football gods decreed that this year’s … and Brown now have two league losses. Whatever the outcome of next Saturday’s Yale Bowl finale, Harvard (6-0 in Ivy games, 8-1 overall) is assured of this year’s Ivy championship. Harvard teams have won or …
Bedding Down in Early America
… supports tightened with a wooden peg (from which the phrase “sleep tight” derives) held mattresses stuffed … An Intimate Look” —at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in Hartford, Connecticut, further reveals: “Before … was transported to America, features an enclosure made of fustian valances and curtains embroidered with crewel …
Issue: January-February 2019
A Better Bed-Net Strategy
… David Sengeh ’10 has decided that the most important asset in development work is not … households, nearly 9,000 people in all. During the course of the summer, Sengeh estimates that each of them walked 120 miles. Their results thus far are …
Issue: November-December 2009
Chapter & Verse
… Thomas Engelsing would like to learn the source of the following lines: “And now hear this, my ruder truth, thou art composed of lust unchained and most vile flux.” Royall Moore hopes …
Issue: September-October 2008
You, Scientist
… PLATFORMS Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/ The citizen-science platform began with a single project, … hosts projects from all disciplines, from classification of whale calls to the transcription of old ship logs. Scientific American …
Chapter and Verse
… a poached egg, as long as you don’t make me sit on pieces of hot buttered toast.” He notes that “the first few words may be in error, but the rest is … “Always act in such a way as to not reduce the self-respect of the opponent.” “…this is supernuts” (May-June). Daniel …
Issue: September-October 2015
Student Arrested for Rape
… Joshua M. Elster '00 , of Kirkland House and Tucson, was arrested by Harvard police … County Jail, and arraigned February 2 on three counts of rape and two counts of assault and battery of an undergraduate woman. Elster pleaded innocent to the charges. He posted $10,000 cash bail next day. District …
Fall Preview—and Blog
… The football team, which last year shared the Ivy League … Chris Pizzotti ’08 (’09), the Ivy League’s Player of the Year last fall. There are several candidates for that … from running backs Cheng Ho ’10 and Gino Gordon ’11. The offensive line graduated three all-Ivy players, but an able …
Issue: September-October 2009
Guggenheims Galore
… “Impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment” … affiliates have received that honor. Creative arts: Professor of visual arts and anthropology Lucien Castaing-Taylor, the …
Squash Goes a New Way
… squash coach Mike Way has signed a contract to become the new head coach of men's and women's squash at Harvard, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson. Way's highest-profile accomplishment is coaching fellow Canadian Jonathan …
An Unheralded Honored Guest
… Amid all the pomp and circumstance on Wednesday, a different kind of procession was spotted: a Secret Service cavalcade … Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose niece, Alana Biden, is a member of the College class of 2011. Biden also greeted a former …
Overseer and HAA Director Members Elected
… The University announced today the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers (one of Harvard’s two governing boards), who …
Satirist Borowitz on New PBS Show
… Satirist Andy Borowitz ’80, author of the Borowitz Report and co-creator of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, will do a comedy segment at the …