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...would be a shame if there were anything less than a packed house to see the class of '98 play its final game tomorrow at Ohiri Field. It will be a bittersweet farewell to a group of players who have been the backbone of one of the most successful eras in Harvard lacrosse history...
...special game for us because we have all been through so much together in the past four years. It will be a little bittersweet." said senior Owen Leary...
While the entrees approached magnificence, desserts held their own. Hot chocolate soup may sound like a childhood attempt to find the right ratio between fudge sauce and ice cream in a sundae. But the dish was highly sophisticated, made from velvety, warm, bittersweet chocolate swirled with a touch of cream and punctuated by croutons of cinnamon pound cake. The second dessert, slices of wine-soaked strudel wrapped in phyllo pastry and served with poached pear, saves the tables from gluttonous chocolate saturation and coffee inevitably rounds out the meal...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher...
TIME's Weekend Review At the end of a week of legal woes for Microsoft, the revelation that TIME's man of the year is a close compatriot of Bill Gates' will come as a bittersweet blow for the Microsoft billionaire. Where did he go wrong? Read the Review...