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...order of malta, an ancient-Rome-based humanitarian entity whose senior members are knights and other nobles, aids victims of war and disaster, issues its own passports and holds diplomatic ties with 100 nations. In 1988 Andrew Bertie, a descendant of Britain's royal Stuarts, became its first British grand master since 1258. The journalist turned teacher upped membership, expanded relief efforts and doubled diplomatic missions...
...first word Aitzaz Ahsan learned was a catchphrase of political protest. He was an infant in 1946, when his mother was among a group of political activists imprisoned for opposing a British-appointed administrator in what was then colonial India. In defiance of their jailers, the prisoners kept up their call-and-response sloganeering. Somebody would shout out, "Khizr wazirat" ("Minister Khizr's rule"). The rest would respond, "Tordo!" ("Break it!"). Soon little Ahsan was joining in with the chorus. Long after the independence of Pakistan and India in 1947, Ahsan's quavering "Tordo!" echoed through the family home...
...sought another Shakespeare course in honor of his memory. I was rewarded not long after by Shakespearean Tragedy, where I fell hard for the deep, dulcet speaking voice and dynamic lecture style of my next love: Professor Stephen Greenblatt. I switched from being an aspiring History concentrator to British Hist & Lit, before moving across the Barker Center to the English department, home to many of Harvard’s hotties...
...masse of undergrads from the Sciences to the Humanities goes to show that this trend is becoming more pervasive than ever before. After all, who wouldn’t prefer to spend section listening to one of Her Majesty’s finest discussing Henry IV with a British accent rather than frantically deciphering an unintelligible Math...
...hrle, who made his fortune selling weapons to Germany during WWII, studied art history and was 30 years old when he began amassing his collection, but his holdings have proven controversial. At least 13 of the artworks he owned at war's end were included on British specialist Douglas Cooper's "looted art list," which was used to recover pieces stolen from Jews by the Nazis. A five-year study undertaken by the Swiss government determined in 2001 that Bührle, who died in 1956, had acquired "flight art" ? works smuggled out of Axis-controlled areas and sold...