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...have been together for seven years and have known each other since they met in graduate school 20 years ago, Simmons said yesterday...
Changes have occurred since I entered Harvard 61 years ago. Most obviously, in 1948 the class consisted only of men. Women, in smaller numbers, were shunted off to Radcliffe. The amalgamation of genders and increased diversity of the student body in general are likely to have effects on the university that will not be fully appreciated for at least 50 years...
...careful how you are quoted in The Crimson. I Googled myself and found that remarks made 60 years ago were still retrievable...
...figures have been inflated by poor people trying to scam the government out of benefits provided to legitimate victims, such as food and temporary shelter. But they admit to being surprised by the rising numbers. "It's worse than what we had expected two, three or four years ago," says Armando Escobar, who heads IDP programs for the government's social-welfare agency...
Under a vast plain of dried mud, set between southern Taiwan's lush mountains, 400 bodies still lie that were buried alive three weeks ago in typhoon Morakot, the island's most recent and deadly natural disaster. The now infamous village of Siaolin - the worst hit by Morakot - was the first stop for the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader-in-exile, on his visit to Taiwan this week. Wrapped in his saffron and maroon robes, he sat in the traditional leg-cross on a blue and gold straw mat, overlooking the tragic plain, and recited Tibetan prayers. He then stood...