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Following up on discussions from last spring, the Committee on House Life (CHL) decided yesterday to create a task force in the next few weeks to assess whether dining hall hours should be extended. The committee also discussed modifications to the annual House tutor survey...
...hundreds of jack o’ lanterns in the pouring rain and taken some mad creepy photos, we felt that same emptiness that often results from eating an entire bag of candy corn. Just then, we spotted Stollichnaya whiling away at a particularly massive pumpkin. Totally enraptured by the task at hand, he stood silent, solemnly committed to carving the most profound pumpkin of all. Shaking off requests to give us a “hint” of what he was carving, he finally poked out the last pumpkin piece, slowly lifted the lantern in the air, and mouthed...
...Though our society has long assumed that everyone identifies with one race, America is making strides towards acknowledging racial complexities. Nonetheless, many still find it difficult to not get sucked into thinking of race in the conventional manner. Living on a college campus doesn’t make this task easier.“It’s really hard not to get sucked into the single-race track. As pre-frosh we step foot on campus and are immediately bombarded by members of Fuerza Latina or the Asian American Association or the Black Students Association who essentially claim...
...Afghanistan instead of Iraq. But at least part of the answer to the question "Why haven't we caught Osama bin Laden?" is that we took on Iraq before the job in Afghanistan was truly finished. The U.S.'s monetary and human resources are stretched too thin for either task to be completed anytime soon. For far too long, Afghanistan has been pushed out of the spotlight. I hope our mission there will regain the attention it needs so we can be successful in that country in the not too distant future...
Rose Levy Beranbaum knows from baking. The author of the million-copies-sold The Cake Bible spends most days thinking about what to do with flour, butter and sugar. That task became even more satisfying about eight years ago when she discovered a fleet of organic and unrefined sugars that have distinct flavors. "Sugar is no longer just a sweetener," she says of this new class of specialty sugars from exotic locales like Costa Rica and Paraguay. "It's now a flavoring ingredient that brings a whole new spectrum to the artist's palette of taste...