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...Great Wall, which snakes across some 4,100 miles of northern China, has long been a symbol of national unity. Today the world's longest man-made structure also symbolizes disintegration. According to the Peking Evening News, more than half of the 100-mile segment within Peking's municipal limits is in ruins. One 19-mile stretch in Miyun county has virtually disappeared. The collapse is due partly to erosion and neglect through the ages; much damage was also done by peasants who expressed their contempt for tradition during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) by ripping off pieces...
...intention to criticize Harvard's present policies concerning the naming of the buildings, nor to belittle those benefactors who generously have contributed towards the betterment of the facilities. Rather, I hope to remind summer school students that the president who held office for the longest period of time in the history of the U.S. was a Harvard graduate, something of which I am sure John Harvard himself would have been proud. E. Macareba Camunas Beena
Some 10,000 journalists from 140 governmental entities are in Los Angeles, among the biggest assemblages for the longest time (there were 14,000 at the four-day Democratic Convention last month) in the history of reporting. By far the most influential are the 3,500 members of ABC's army, who produce two separate reports: the broadcast seen by Americans and tailored to them, and a neutral pictorial record of every event, about 1,300 hours in all, to be excerpted for broadcasts in the rest of the world...
...feelings are not entirely formless, either. There are very few historical experiences that the world holds in common. The Olympic Games are one. "A tradition," says George Liveris, president of the Greek Shooting Federation, and once an Olympic participant. "They are the longest lasting social activity that exists." Maybe that accounts for the remarkable success of the American torch relay. On the roads, the cheers for the torchbearers came out sounding like old-fashioned patriotism, but the impulse seemed to go both broader and deeper, to a connection with Greece, with the past, with everyone's past...
...larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If it were a state, it would be the eighth largest in population (7.9 million-behind Michigan, but ahead of New Jersey), not including California. The city measures 30 miles at its widest, 44 miles at its longest. It is roughly 465 sq. mi., and when you reach an edge and leave the city behind, there is no sense of leaving anything, because the fried chicken joints, the car washes, taco houses, newspaper racks, billboards, stop lights and, along your flanks, oil pumps bobbing like giraffes eating the tops out of acacia trees...