Word: 17th
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After getting spanked 6-1 by 17th-ranked Tennessee, Harvard rallied and took Colorado and Texas Christian University to the limit but could not eke out a victory, falling 4-3 to both...
...Rape has always been endemic with armies," says John A. Lynn, military-history professor at the University of Illinois. "There have been armies in which rape was treated as a disciplinary problem, and armies in which it was institutionalized. In most European armies in the first half of the 17th century, rapes by unpaid soldiers occurred in large numbers in front of officers and were not stopped because they were part of the quid pro quo of what you got for being a soldier...
Derrick E. Bass '95, Tony C. Hsich '95 and Craig D. Silverstein '94 made up the first Harvard team ever to win the 17th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming competition...
KEVIN PHILLIPS HAS BUILT A REPUTAtion as the dependable fortune-teller of American politics. BOILING POINT: REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, AND THE DECLINE OF MIDDLE-CLASS PROSPERITY (Random House; $23) is not as boldly predictive as his earlier books: he compares this nation's fate to that of 17th century Holland and late 19th century England -- two economic powerhouses that declined under the weight of indebtedness at home and overexpansion abroad -- only to suggest later that the parallels may not hold up. But Phillips' statistics and his pictures of suburbia provide a rich backdrop to last November's election -- an instant context...
...Darwinians maintain, sex probably led the way. But why was love hatched in the process, since it was presumably unnecessary to get things started in the first place? Furthermore, what has sustained romance -- that odd collection of tics and impulses -- over the centuries? Most mass hallucinations, such as the 17th century tulip mania in Holland, flame out fairly rapidly when people realize the absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look...