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...events at Naadam. Some say that the festival has its origins in the great hunting gatherings of the Mongol warriors of yore. As archers let their bows fly, and horse riders perform amazing feats of courage and skill, the claim is easy to believe. For more information, visit mongoliatourism.gov.mn
...place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a dread silence--a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?" POPE BENEDICT XVI, at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz during a visit to Poland, the birthplace of his predecessor, John Paul...
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...think [parietals] would ever end,” adds Royce, who is a former Crimson editor.PURITANS IN THE DORMSThroughout the mid-1950s, petitions requesting the extension of parietal hours circulated. Specifically, students lobbied for longer hours during the football season and for freshmen to have the same visitation rights as upperclassmen.As members of the Class of 1956 completed their freshman year, they lost the opportunity to entertain women from 1 to 4 p.m., in return for a three-hour extension on Saturday evenings until 11 p.m. Despite the gain on Saturday nights, undergraduates had a net loss of 15 hours...
...Donald D. Breed ’56 says that though a number of seniors moved off campus for their last year during that time, it was due more to avoid parietal rules than overcrowding. “At that time, it was very circumscribed when women could come and visit and they had to be signed in and signed out,” Breed says. “Consequently, people looked forward to living off campus so they wouldn’t have those rules to contend with.”...AND MATHER MAKES TENThe vision that Pusey articulated...