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...residents, all men, did their own cleaning and maintenance but hired Radcliffe women to cook dinner for $10 a night. In the fall of 1966, James G. Maslach ’69 instituted the practice that Co-opers would prepare their own dinners in order to save money, a custom that lives on today. The Co-op began housing women by the early...
...summer before my senior year of high school, my so-called best outfit was a short-sleeved “Speedy Gonzales” tee by Iceberg, black shorts with red lining by Guess, and a pair of black and red Chi-town Air Force Ones that I had custom outfitted with Gucci material on the toe and swoosh. I’d be shocked if anyone at Harvard even knows what Iceberg is, or once took the trouble to have their Timbs or Forces outfitted with Gucci, or even Louis Vuitton print. For two years in high school...
...best way to get a sense of the place and its people, though, is through the warm, friendly custom of Kaffemik. Before we leave, there is just enough time for another drop of coffee and a few more cakes. As they say at Kaffemiks across Greenland: "Tass' mamaq (Yummy...
...heart of the identity problem are the group's commitment to "celestial marriage" - polygamy - and its custom of allowing first cousins to marry. "Your family tree shouldn't be a wreath," says Randy Mankin, editor of the El Dorado Success newspaper, which unearthed the sect's Utah roots four years ago, when its first members, posing as businessmen, arrived in Eldorado under the pretense of building a hunting and game preserve. But the legal notices published in Mankin's paper listing the custody suits brought by the state against the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ...
...Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, and thousands attended a vigil on the eve of the flame's arrival. A slew of other activists are congregating around the issue, from advocates for Burmese democracy (China backs the country's junta) to nudists who want the Olympics to revert to the custom of ancient Greece and have the athletes compete naked. The San Francisco police department canceled all vacations and leaves to prepare for Wednesday's relay...