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Although the age-old rebuilding cliche is usually reserved for teams not having the best of times, it had a very different meaning for most Harvard teams in 1994-1995. An array of talented new faces poured the foundation for what could be the coming of a golden year for the Harvard Department of Athletics...
Another part of the pharaoh's job was to fight constant battles with encroaching enemies. Four years after Ramesses succeeded Seti, the Egyptians' age-old rivals the Hittites appeared on the horizon from the north. The novice pharaoh hurriedly raised an army of 20,000 soldiers, a huge number by the standards of the day, and marched up through the present-day Gaza Strip to confront a Hittite force nearly twice as big. The battle ended in a stalemate; after many more inconclusive skirmishes over the next 15 years, Muwatallis' successor, Hattusilis III, requested a peace treaty, and the Egyptians...
Grisham's fame and fortune are based on the law. The son of an itinerant construction worker, he graduated from the University of Mississippi law school and practiced criminal law for nine years in Southaven, outside Memphis. The experience gave him his particular take on an age-old formula: little guy triumphs over big guy. Or over the feds, the Klan, the Mafia, the cia, the fbi-or, in The Rainmaker, the insurance industry...
Korologos linked the Contract to the age-old American Dream...
...course, this proposed auction is just the beginning. Harvard should not let anything get in the way of its capital campaign. More money for education is far more important than anything as trivial as institutional dignity or age-old tradition. Harvard should offer to rename itself after anyone willing to kick in enough money...