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...prophetic idea was to recruit religious outcasts--Englishmen who longed to put an ocean between them and the established Anglican Church. Some radical Protestants, known as Dissenters, had already fled to Holland. The Virginia Co. lured some Dissenters over and opened negotiations with others. One boatload of Pilgrims, blown north, landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. Religious pluralism in British North America would suffer many backtracks and false starts (Virginia would develop its own Anglican establishment as time passed), but the first step was taken in Jamestown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...staying clear of Jamestown for the next four years. The English, though, weren't finished with her. In the spring of 1613, when Pocahontas was nearing 18, she was kidnapped by a colonist-sailor. Her father paid most of the ransom--a gaggle of English prisoners, guns and a boatload of corn--but the white men kept the girl just upriver from Jamestown. There the planter John Rolfe, a prosperous widower, soon found himself battling an attraction he deemed alternately sinful and sublime. In what must be the most peculiar betrothal request in American history, Rolfe wrote to Virginia Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad About You | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...relieve stress and improve mental and physical health, give students time to see friends and family, mesh better with NCAA calendars for athletes, better fit the schedules of international programs for students wishing to travel abroad, ease the burden of flying home for international students, and save Harvard a boatload in energy and staffing costs. A reformed calendar would also put all of Harvard’s schools on the same schedule. The opportunities for increased inter-faculty coordination and cooperation was one of the main reasons that an inter-faculty committee led by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Don’t Delay Calendar Reform | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...looks very much like a piece of charcoal. The reason Don Cicoletti collects it is because if you crack the vomit open and start to pull it apart, you'll find the hair and bones from the prey the owl has swallowed whole. Don sells these things by the boatload to elementary schools, and the kids put the mouse back together again. This guy is making a living crawling through the woods looking for owl vomit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone's Gotta Love It | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...we’re looking mad handsome and cool, follow J-Zone’s advice and “Don’t holler.”)But it’s goodbye to the good times, too. Four years after a pair of red folders and a boatload of desperation first brought us together, we have run a marathon, seen Phil Collins in concert, and had full sex with three of the same girls (this last part is false). We’ve also never voted in a UC election, never been to an a cappella concert...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The End of a Chach-Filled Era | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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