Word: massed
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...envelope which would dictate my fate for the next three years, I chuckled at the thought of the poor slobs who'd be making the trek all the way from the Quad for the rest of their Harvard careers. I, plagued with delusions of grandeur, envisioned myself simply crossing Mass Ave. from Adams House to the Yard. Wait! What? Read it again! It doesn't...no...it can't be...CURRIER! Dreams of champagne and strawberries quickly dissolved into horror at the thought of shuttle schedules...
Smith said that he has not yet finalized arrangements with a keynote speaker, though Har'd CORPS is hoping to arrange for Rep. Michael A. Capuano (D-Mass.) to come...
...enjoyed a moment of triumph on Friday when, on the mountain where Jesus was said to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount, he celebrated Mass for 80,000 mostly youthful believers. They were from around the world, but a sizable number were Lebanese, and parts of the Mass were in Arabic. Said Wadie Abu-Nassar, director of the Great Jubilee Office in Jerusalem: "Since the time of Jesus, no one has ever managed to bring a crowd like this together in a peaceful way. When crowds like this have gathered in the past it was normally...
...birth to the Messiah; accordingly, a legend on the altar reads HERE THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. But it was also here last year that Muslim riots broke out when Christians objected to a mosque going up nearby. No disturbances rent the peace during the Pope's two-hour Mass, however, perhaps because a Muslim prayer leader preached against disturbances after a brief spate of shouts and whistles, or perhaps because the threat of violence was exaggerated...
Inferno (Phaidon; 480 pages; $125) is the record of what Nachtwey saw in the 1990s. After the fall of the communist dictator Ceaucescu, he visited the ghoulish places where Romanian orphans were warehoused. He moved on to Somalia and the Sudan--where famine was used as a weapon of mass destruction during civil war--and he photographed in the refugee camps. In 1994 he worked in Rwanda and Zaire during the unsupervised ferocities of the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis and the regional chaos it set in motion, including what may have been the largest refugee exodus in history...