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While Linda and I were winding down our honeymoon in 1993 with a fare-saving detour to London (at her employer’s expense—we spent the honeymoon in Provence, and I groused about this callous interruption, but it did pay for her fare, at least to London and back, and gave us three days in a luxury hotel […]

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Today’s NYTimes (how many comments could begin that way…?) talks about the virtues of cold-brewing coffee for the true iced coffee fanatic. In theory, and practice, apparently cold-brewing sort of concentrates all the good stuff, and leaves out a lot of the bad—so much so that cold-brewed converts allege you won’t need (or want) the […]

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We attended a party for the graduation of the daughter of long-time dear friends the other day. It was held at the Harvard Faculty Club. If you don’t know it, it will nevertheless not surprise you that it’s a staid, if not stuffy institution on the edge of the Yard in a neo-Georgian assemblage of […]

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