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Spicing Things Up
I had eaten everything from vegan bacon to blood sausage. Now it was time to seek a new holy grail
The Congee Chronicles
Oh, gritty, greasy joys of Chinatown. There is nothing more exhilarating than shoving through a horde of protesting Taiwanese ex-pats
Untied Hands
Each minute tons of goods pass freely, quickly, and quietly across international borders. The new Blackberry Storm, released last Friday
The Future for Nepal
After ten years of violence, the Maoists, the political parties, and the royal family have agreed on a roadmap for
Going To The Other Side
While the season may be ripe for sunbathing on the beach or going to wild parties, a few among us
Saved by the Bell: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Brian Fallon and I stood a shade off the field at Fenway Park after the 2001 Beanpot consolation game, interviewing
Fools Rush In
Last week, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby appointed a new head of the newly created Office of International
The League of Nations Redux?
The lessons of the 1920s and 1930s seem lost on certain members of the United Nations—in particular, France and Germany,
The Odd Couple
This month the United Nations declared all African food shortages in decline—except in Zimbabwe, where a growing majority of the
The Thesis Club
I have just founded yet another Harvard group: Ari’s Thesis Club (ATC). My thesis-deprived friends thought we were kidding. “Wait,
God in the Genes?
For most scientists, God is irrelevant. And that is a very good thing. When science and religion intersect, an unseemly
Sometimes-Cerebral Rapper Mixes Palindromes, Politics
Paul Barman is a skinny, frumpily dressed Jewish guy with glasses, several days’ worth of stubble and an undergraduate degree
Vadim Crafts Beats To Last a Lifetime
Aside from musical mixmaster and producer DJ Vadim, there isn’t anything particularly Russian about the Russian Percussion. With members British
Dismembering, Remembering the Plan
Music history is wrought with tales of bands’ demise, evidenced by the VH1 shows that explore their downfall due to
Epigrams, Advice Fill Mailer’s New Book
Thoughts on Writing by Norman K. Mailer ’43—a hodgepodge of literary interviews, prefaces, essays, anecdotes and aphorisms—would seem little more
