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...16th century, the fiery invader Babur swooped down from present-day Afghanistan to begin his conquest of Hindu India, which started three centuries of foreign rule known as the Mogul period. In 1528, one of his noblemen built a mosque in Ayodhya. History suggests the Muslim invaders dismantled a Hindu temple to do so. That's the building and the site that is provenance of the current conflict: some Hindus say the temple, and then the mosque, sat on the actual birthplace of Rama. For a century-and-a-half, Hindus and Muslims squabbled over the mosque. For Hindus, reclaiming...
...last wrote to you in May (The RaHooligan, May 16th, 2001), before you had assumed office, and I told you that the first thing you needed to do as president of Harvard University was to buy the Red Sox. I had laid out a perfect plan of how doing so would eliminate the thorny problems that your predecessor, Mr. Rudenstine, left for you in a stinking pile on the front porch of Mass. Hall...
With a 13 or 14 seed, Harvard will play some team the tournament selection committee ranks somewhere between ninth and 16th in the country...
...founding tradition of secular tolerance. In 1992, the city became the focus of the worst communal violence since India's partition 45 years earlier, when 2,000 people died in clashes after Hindu nationalists - including members of what is now the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - tore down the 16th century Babri mosque. Hindus claim the mosque had originally been built on the site of a temple marking the birthplace of the Hindu deity Lord Rama. Ever since then, the Hindu nationalist movement has been pushing to build a new Hindu temple where the mosque once stood...
...Britain beat them in the semifinals. The British went on to defeat the Swiss in an exciting (honest) gold-medal match that went down to the last stone. All the members of the British team hail from Scotland, which is appropriate since the sport traces its origins to the 16th century and frozen Scottish lochs. The 19-kg stones used in competition are still cut from Scottish granite...