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...read in both their original languages and in English. The origins of the Baccalaureate service are unclear. Columbia and Dartmouth both say on their websites that the ceremony began at Oxford University in 1432, when each graduate had to deliver a Latin oration. But Gomes traces the ceremony to 13th-century Cambridge University, where graduates sat shrouded in hoods—“a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment.” The service has been part of Harvard’s exercises since the University’s first Commencement in 1642, six years after...
...road to Hannah's mind opened a few days before her 13th birthday...
...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
After a strong start to the season—Balmert finished ninth and 13th in her first two events—the team knew that its freshmen duo of Balmert and Ali Bode was something special...
...fade into irrelevance. Over the past decade, environmentalists have achieved few political victories and utterly failed to influence the general public. As indicated by a recent MIT study, the public knows little about environmental problems, and cares less. Out of 21 national and international issues, Americans ranked environmental problems 13th, well below terrorism, taxes, crime, and drugs...