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...sells everything from the grossly excessive ($275 Beluga Malossol caviar) to the decidedly campy (blueberry lollipops with edible scorpion centers). I purchased crisp toast as a receptacle for the foie gras, spicy cranberry and wasabi jam, and balsamic-cherry syrup. I made a final stop at the budget-friendly Shalimar India Food & Spices Store in Central Square for crushed red chilies, coconut milk, bamboo skewers, and coriander (cilantro)—all for under $10. Back in Lowell House, I plugged in my faithful George Foreman Grill, cut the halloumi into wedges, and sliced figs in half. I browned...
...into the administration’s priorities. Camp Harvard, the Harvard Carnival, the Harvard State Fair, Yardfest, and other sundry circuses threw open the doors of University Hall—quite literally—to undergraduates, while a new College Events Board was furnished with a $200,000 programming budget. Derisive comments from predecessors and talking heads aside, the initiatives have been well-received. Their success has prompted alumni to give generously and, in many cases, directly to the College through the new Dean’s Fund for Undergraduate Life, created by Gross to target fundraising at undergraduates. Undergraduates...
...been very difficult to get funding in the last few years because of where the money is being allocated by the federal government,” Jensen said. “The NIH budget has suffered and the funding rate has been extraordinarily affected...
...westerns that are surfacing now can do so only because some potent actor like Pitt invests his cachet in producing an epic-size movie on an indie-film budget ($30 million or so for Jesse James). Or because two boutique studios chip in for a modern western revenge film, as Paramount Vantage and Miramax did for Joel and Ethan Coen's smart, violent, defiantly quirky No Country for Old Men, coming in November. Or when a director with a hit movie on his rsum charms financiers outside the studio. That's how James Mangold, fresh from Walk the Line...
Since that long boom ended in 2001, though, griping and whining have been ascendant. Greenspan was a bubble blower, the main criticism goes, a man whose lax monetary policies encouraged excess and speculation. What's more, he failed to thwart George W. Bush's demolition of the budget surpluses built up in the Clinton years. These complaints were steadily gaining in volume, thanks to the collapse of a mortgage-lending boom that began on Greenspan's watch, when the man jumped into the fray in mid-September with The Age of Turbulence, a new book about his life...