Word: 17th
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Belize, formerly British Honduras, enjoys the distinction of being the most obscure country in Latin America. It is tiny: a nibble between the borders of Mexico to the north, Honduras to the south and Guatemala to the west. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the haunt of Spanish bucaneros and English slavers, of logwood cutters and warm-sea riffraff. In 1981 it achieved independence, and today it is the last fragment of the British Commonwealth on Central American soil, the smallest sovereign state on the whole continent (pop. about 200,000) and politically the least eventful...
...feels that the perpetuation of the happy drunk leprechaun stereotype is equivalent to an ethnic slur, and therefore encourages the Harvard community to celebrate March 17th not by drinking beer, but by engaging in more culturally appropriate activities, such as reading Yeats or, perhaps, watching John Wayne physically drag a woman's body through the Irish countryside in "The Quiet Man." Now, how's that for "rich and beautiful Irish culture...
...cease to be a great nation." Britain, like the U.S. now, suffered from a profound neglect of its educational system. It was what one scientist called "an invisible crisis. Nothing dramatic is going to happen for years . . . Then we shall wake up and find, like the Venetians in the 17th century, that all that makes our living has slipped away...
Yesterday, Natalie Zemon Davis, a professor of history at Princeton University, addressed more than 100 members of the Harvard community on the autobiography of a 17th century Jewish merchant woman. The lecture focused primarily on the first part of Davis's upcoming book, Women on the Margin, in which she analyzes the lives of 17th century Jewish Catholic and Protestant women...
Donato's second goal, the gamewinner, was his 17th on the season. The senior winger, with 34 assists to his credit, has equalled his career-high point total. Donato notched his first 51-point season as a sophomore on the 1988-89 national championship team...