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Amelia E. Lester

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Steaking a Claim

Lettuce leaves and organic beansprouts are all very well and good, but nothing satiates the appetite like a big, juicy


Puns, Politics and Lots of Flying Balls

Last week, as the Democratic National Convention filled Boston’s FleetCenter with four straight days of platform-pounding and strategic maneuvers, a


The Shock of the New

If the masterminds of the curricular review have their way, future poets, historians and run-of-the-mill inept-at-long-division English concentrators will all


The Waiting Game

I have a problem. You probably have it too. I am totally, and utterly, addicted to the adrenaline rush of


Catch the Fever

Spring in Cambridge is a strange time. For all the familiar clichés of the season as a time of miraculous


The Lure of Lamont

Chalk it up as yet another one of those choice campus locales where I do not want to find myself


Pleased To Meet You

This week I was going to write about the ins and outs of sectional politics and its stock standard movers


Hey, Big Spender

First, a disclaimer: there are lots of annoying people at Harvard. There’s That Kid in Section who takes copious notes