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'New Moon' Panel Unveils CGI Tricks

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

Many fans of the popular “Twilight” saga and its film franchise would like to maintain the illusion that the Cullens’ sparkling diamond-like skin is merely an unfortunate sun-induced vampire affliction, or that Taylor Lautner’s transformation into a werewolf in the film version of “New Moon” is a manifestation of a Quilete tribe member’s coming-of-age in a troubled, vampire-ridden world.


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Harvard Looks To Snap Drought

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

Currently on an eight game winless streak, Harvard (1-6-2, 1-5-2 ECAC) will need more than optimism to win tonight against Brown (1-7-1, 1-4-1 ECAC).


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Digging Up Dirt on Veritas History

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

The remnants of silver saltcellers and forks on display in the Peabody Museum reveal more about the history of Harvard


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Julie and Julia

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

America is obsessed with food. In the past couple of years, Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto”


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David J. Tischfield ’09

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

Ceramics is normally a field dominated by women,” notes David J. Tischfield ’09. “I get known as the pottery guy.”


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HCC’s ‘Lysistrata’ Takes Humorous Liberties

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

This Saturday, the Harvard Classical Club translated Aristophanes’s classical Athenian “Lysistrata”—the story of a band of woman determined to end


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Duplicity

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

“We’re not like other people,” Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) tearfully announces to Ray Koval (Clive Owen). “Only you could understand


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Macabre, Mundane Merge

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

It is not only expected but de rigueur in the cult of the North American suburban gothic that every SUV-driving,


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NYC Artist Speaks About Eco Project

By Lauren S. Packard  • 

Eve Mosher discussed her critically acclaimed New York City eco-art project HighWaterLine in the Gund Auditorium at the Graduate School

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