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...true that slavery had been written into the basis of the classical world. Periclean Athens was a slave state, and so was Augustan Rome. Most of their slaves were Caucasian. The word slave meant a person of Slavic origin. By the 13th century slavery spread to other Caucasian peoples. But the African % slave trade as such, the black traffic, was an Arab invention, developed by traders with the enthusiastic collaboration of black African ones, institutionalized with the most unrelenting brutality, centuries before the white man appeared on the African continent, and continuing long after the slave market in North America...
...Harvard wrestling team faces its toughest challenge of the season today as it opens Ivy League competition against 13th-ranked Cornell and Cortland College in a double-dual meet in Ithaca...
...flower early, then fade from fashion long before they die and spend decades enduring agonizing public reappraisal of their early triumphs. That has been Miller's lot in the U.S., where commercial producers mostly write him off as a shopworn social reformer. In Britain Mt. Morgan is his 13th play to be seen in the West End in the past dozen years. Moreover, British critics and audiences accept him as the poetic expressionist he sees in himself, rather than the earnest realist that U.S. productions relentlessly turn him into. "In London," he says, "audiences and critics are not so bound...
...despite a somber nine-for-21 performance against the Crimson, Tigers quarterback Chad Roghair continues to lead the nation in passing efficiency. He is now the 13th all-time yardage leader at Princeton...
Spaulding Gray's latest autobiographical stage monologue, Monster in a Box, is intellectual, entertaining theater. Gray describes the monologue, his 13th, as being "about a man who can't write a book about a man who can't take a vacation." Monster in a Box is both brilliant and funny, expertly combining Freud's intellectualism with the scatological humor involved in recounting a total soybean diet--which Gray once experienced while depressed in Houston...