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Consider all that happened in the first remarkable months at the beginning of 1848. On Jan. 24, gold was discovered accidentally on a river in Northern California--the first fleck of what would quickly become more than a thousand tons. Nine days later, a treaty was signed ending the U.S. war with Mexico--our first elective war, first imperial war--in one stroke extending the U.S. from the Texas border to the Pacific. At the same moment in London, meanwhile, a 29-year-old German philosopher named Karl Marx and his 27-year-old textile manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published...
...ugly, and before it started terrorizing innocent Koreans, it was a tadpole. Then a careless American doctor at a local military base ordered hundreds of gallons of formaldehyde dumped into the Han River. The creature swallowed the toxin; now the thing is 30 ft. long, has 10 legs, looks like an angry Muppet and is itching for mischief. U.S. scientists have yet more dire news: the beast is the host for a deadly virus that could wipe out everyone in Seoul or-- dare we say it--the world...
...expert can't shoot straight. Actually, you won't want them to kill the monster, not right away, since it has lots of its own eccentricities. The creature is less vicious than playful, a showboating athlete that does high-bar 360s on a bridge rail and backflips into the river. When it hits land, it lopes like Marmaduke next to its ostensible victims; it treats any human in its mouth more as a chew toy than as lunch. If the movie is remade for the U.S. market, expect kids to beg for those monster toys...
With regard to spectators and school spirit, suggestions included a prominent link to the Harvard athletics Web site and game schedules on the my.harvard portal, as well as a UC-sponsored shuttle service to get people across the river to big games...
...folks at the Education School so desperately clinging to their cramped quarters on Brattle Street—no kids there—instead of leaping at the chance to cross the river and help us reweave the fascinating fabric of our Allston community? Wouldn’t students and faculty at the School of Public Health enjoy the challenge of working with our often underserved population? While Harvard’s sages ponder how to ground the general education curriculum in knowledge of the real world, Allston is that world, just down the street...