Crimson staff writer

Lauren S. Packard

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'New Moon' Panel Unveils CGI Tricks

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.


Digging Up Dirt on Veritas History

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


Julie and Julia

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


David J. Tischfield ’09

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


HCC’s ‘Lysistrata’ Takes Humorous Liberties

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


Duplicity

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


Macabre, Mundane Merge

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