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Despite Faust’s contemporary focus, the baccalaureate ceremonies did not lack for ritual or religion. Cap-and-gown-clad seniors entered the church in procession and heard several of their classmates read passages from Confucius, the Bible, Hindu scripture, and the Quran...
Cross country and track head coach Jason Saretsky has never heard of a sophomore slump.In his second year at the helm of the program, Saretsky is already well on his way to building the Harvard group into a powerful force.“I still feel like we have a long, long way to go to get where I want to take this program,” Saretsky said. “But I’m really satisfied with how the returning members have responded to the changes the coaches have made.”Both men?...
...Until the state's challenge is heard, however, the woman - identified only as a 25-year-old nursing student from northern France - is condemned to play the role of symbol for the many forces that have seized her case as a major cause. The storm broke out last Thursday, when France's national media picked up on the unpublicized April 1 verdict annulling the couple's 10-month marriage on the husband's complaint that his wife's prenuptial assurances of virginity were false. The judge had reasoned that the wife's claimed virginity constituted "an essential quality decisive...
...know that women's rights are never secured, but we never thought we'd see such regression in our country," reacted Martine Aubry, the Socialist mayor of Lille, where the case was heard. France's conservative secretary of state for social solidarity, Valérie Létard, called the decision "an attack on the integrity of women and a violation of the fundamental rights of all individuals...
...know that it sits atop about 100 billion barrels of oil and is one of the world's biggest producers of both wheat and uranium, but anyone in the West who pays even the most cursory attention to popular culture will almost certainly, thanks to Borat, have heard of Kazakhstan. Then again, the image of the country created by the movie couldn't be more appallingly crass. But it's all relative. Kazakhstan's neighbors include: Uzbekistan, which regularly makes news for its repressive crackdown on dissidents; Turkmenistan, which is best known for its former dictator's cult of personality...