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...Ahmad is eighteen. This is early April; again green sneaks, seed by seed, into the drab citys earthy crevices. He looks down from his new height and thinks that to the insects unseen in the grass he would be, if they had a consciousness like his, God. In the year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him. He will not grow any taller, he thinks, in this life or the next. If there is a next, an inner devil murmurs. What evidence beyond the Prophet's blazing and divinely inspired...
...Before signs went up, I met students who thought they were allowed to reserve desks for themselves all day even though they went unoccupied for hours.” But students continue to break the “Law of the Library.” Yesterday afternoon there were eighteen “reserved” desks on Lamont’s main level. On one desk, a sign over a pile of books read: “I will be back shortly. Please do not remove.” On another, a laptop and several books were left unattended...
...those Harvard students who can’t be bothered to make the trip to Boston, two of Boston’s premier classical music groups will come to you. This Sunday, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Chamber Music Society will both perform in Sanders Theatre. Eighteen-year-old violinist Caitlin Tully will solo for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander, in an afternoon performance of Shostakovich’s “First Violin Concerto.” According to Tully’s website, Yehudi Menuhin, one of the foremost violinists of the 20th...
...Coast is found along the New Madrid fault zone, a 120-mile-long system named after a little town in Arkansas. This is where a series of 2,000 earthquakes struck over a five-month period between 1811 and 1812; five of the quakes registered magnitude 8.0 or more. Eighteen of them caused church bells to ring on the East Coast...
...Eighteen girls from two villages on the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal island were either forced at gunpoint or given money or food to have sex with militants which resulted in them becoming pregnant. One of the girls, who was 11 when she was raped, told researchers her attacker still lives in her village: "I am now 14 years old and he still has sex with me nearly every week...