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Andrew Gellert, a junior guard on the Harvard men's basketball team, was selected yesterday to play for the United States in the 16th World Maccabiah Games. Gellert will join over 5,000 Jewish athletes from more than 50 countries this summer in Israel for the quadrennial event...
...Crimson has had a long tradition of Ivy dominance, this being its 16th title since...
Ever since Europe sailed to Asia in the 16th century, Eurasians have populated entrepots like Malacca, Macau and Goa. The white men who came in search of souls and spices left a generation of mixed-race offspring that, at the high point of empire building, was more than one-million strong. Today, in Malaysia's Strait of Malacca, 1,000 Eurasian fishermen, descendants of intrepid Portuguese traders, still speak an archaic dialect of Portuguese, practice the Catholic faith and carry surnames like De Silva and Da Costa. In Macau, 10,000 mixed-race Macanese serve as the backbone...
Timothy McVeigh’s execution approaches on May 16th under the presidency of George W. Bush who, as governor of Texas, oversaw the execution of 152 people, more than any other state governor in history. It is unlikely that members of the mob clamoring to watch McVeigh die will take the time to read The Stranger, but they should. And so the students in the steady flow from Harvard to the investment banks should pause and read Upside Down. What is the value of their work, what is it they accomplish if, “in 1997, of every...
...long before more continual uses were found in the young government for money, war in and war out. Permanent U.S. income tax began in 1916 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which passed 77-0 in the Senate and 318-14 in the House. Tax began at 1 percent on taxable net income over $3,000 for an individual, and topped off at 7 percent for those making more than $500,000 (approximately $8 million in today’s currency...