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...surprising how a place so popular among Harvard administrators, professors and graduate students is relatively unknown to the undergraduate community. If you have ever dined at the Greenhouse Cafe, or its equivalents at the GSD, Law School or Kennedy School, you may have sampled Panini's goods unwittingly. But Panini is no industrial, impersonal manufacturing hub. The bakery, on the corner of Kirkland and Beacon Streets, has been serving the Somerville/Cambridge community for over four years now. Open from seven in the morning until eight at night, this cozy, unpretentious establishment sells European style breads made the "old-fashioned...
Upon entering the cafe, one is greeted by a raging battle of aromas, between the savory Panini house blend coffee, which is constantly brewing, and straight-out-of-the-oven breads. Sourdough rounds, baguettes, Vienna loaves, lemon scones and focaccia are among Panini's standards. Specials include such delicacies as potato loaves, onion focaccia and crushed olive rolls, all obviously fresh and exceptionally well priced. A variety of pound cakes, cookies and giant biscotti lay on the counter; a friendly, exuberant staff sits behind it. Besides staple deli drinks such as IBC root beer and cream soda, they offer "Fresh...
...student at Harvard, created the soft-colored paintings that hang on the walls, complementing the tranquil effect generated by the blue-green, cream and white decor of the small interior. One simply feels content sitting among the friendly and sociable clientele, many of whom are regulars. The loyalty of Panini's patrons is revealed every Saturday morning, when, beginning at seven, the line is out the door and around the corner...
...Space, Time and Motion," "an inquiry into intuitive, philosophical, mathematical, and physical notions of space, time and motion [also examined] in the light of modern biology and psychology; time and continuity...cosmology," precedes by a mere 713 pages, Sanskrit 202br, Paninian Grammar II, "interpretations and reworkings of Panini; readings from the Mahabhasya, Siddhanta-Kamudi, and Paribhasendusekhara." If for bluster alone, Harvard deserves some respect...
...academic discipline, the study of linguistics can probably be traced back to 400 B.C., when the Indian scholar Panini worked out the first systematic description of Sanskrit. Its recent recognition, however, stems largely from the spirited intellectual battle now going on between two opposing schools: structural linguistics, led by Yale's Leonard Bloomfield in the 1930s and today defended most vigorously by Charles Hockett of Cornell, and the newer transformational linguistics, which was conceived and developed by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...