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When the Class of 1985 graduated, Harvard bid an official, though silent, adieu to the age-old General Education requirement...
...other unofficial Harvard nickname, are even worse. The Cantabridgian, which means a person who lives in Cambridge--is downright silly. And I'm not sure I want to be known as one of the Johns--there are unfortunate implications of this age-old euphemism...
...Middle East between Christians and Moslems "since the beginning of history." Historical facts about the rise of Islam and its relationship with the various other religions of the Middle East aside, it is naive and erroneous to characterize the current strife in Lebanon as the legacy of age-old religious conflict. Many of the ancestors of today's Lebanese population settled in the Shuf Mountains to take refuge from the religious persecution elsewhere in the Middle East. Lebanon developed, in the 18th and 19th centuries, into a state where members of different social, religious and ethnic groups coexisted in relative...
...archaeologists, tiny Easter Island, located in the Pacific more than 2,000 miles west of mainland Chile, is a treasure. Its giant brooding stone figures, fashioned centuries ago, look stoically out to sea, their purpose an age-old mystery. For the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half...
...when I arrived back in Moscow from New York, Brezhnev had created a broader base of support. His power was becoming entrenched. Moscow jokesters were among the first to depict the attitude of the new leadership. Fedorenko told me a story that illustrated Brezhnev's power and the age-old Russian love of wordplay: A worker asked Brezhnev how to address him. He responded bashfully: "Just call me Ilyich." That was Brezhnev's patronymic--the same as Lenin's--and indicated that Brezhnev was far from bashful...