Word: 16th
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...organization, Harvard-Radcliffe Asians for Fair Representation (HRAFR), was mentioned in Nara K. Ahn's March 16th article on the recent dissension among Asian students against the Asian American Association. We would like to thank Ahn for her excellent reporting and her accurate representation of our purpose. Still, we believe we should tell the Harvard community, both Asians and non-Asians alike, why we have decided to criticize the new leadership...
WHEN SPANISH CONQUISTADORES ARRIVED IN MEXIco in the 16th century, they found a veritable Eden and quickly despoiled it. The Spaniards' introduction of the plow accelerated soil erosion; in contrast, indigenous farmers' low-tech methods kept the land in pristine shape. Or so environmentalists, who are urging a return to traditional farming techniques in many areas of the world, like to think...
...Barakett, who had four of Harvard's nine goals in the final, it was a family reunion. Tim--who is the 16th leading scorer in Harvard history, with 134 career points--took the ice with Blades Captain Bob Barakett, a self-described "journeyman from Canada" and Tim's brother...
Martin Guerre was an art-house hit, and is the source for a new musical with Broadway hopes. The story, based on 16th century fact, raised poignant issues: Do we ever know the person we love? Could he be someone else, someone better? What matters in a lover: his identity or his behavior? And, given the choice, would we trade him in for a model that was new, improved -- and a fraud...
Michael Philip Jagger, as he is called in the 16th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, where he is generously represented, has been playing footsie with these problems for years without gaining much advantage. His first two solo albums, objects of great expectation and grand promotion, took a commercial pummeling. He continues to be the front man and guiding light of the Rolling Stones. If he has any identity apart from that, it is as a pop icon, one who wears his accumulating years and history with panache -- an Annie Leibovitz picture of Dorian Gray. No wonder, on this third...