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...Sophomore Brittney Smith led Dartmouth with a 20-point, 11-rebound performance, and will be one player the Crimson will need to stop. The last time the two teams met, Smith put on a clinic with 18 points and 11 rebounds. She will be seeking to secure Dartmouth its 17th division title and a tournament berth. Harvard seems to have history on its side, but recent encounters have proven that the Crimson will not have it easy. Harvard leads the series 35-29, though it has only won one game in the last four meetings. Two of the last three...
...also matters that the Cobbe painting seems to have been copied more than once. (Wells believes the famous Droeshout engraving was made from one of these copies and not the Cobbe original.) In addition to the Folger, there appear to be three other versions, all from the 17th century. "It suggests that this is someone who was famous enough that there was a demand for copies," says Wells. "We have a fascinating reference in a play from 1603 in which there is the character of a young man who was obviously a fan of Shakespeare. He quotes bits of Romeo...
Just four days after Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected as the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a popular Dartmouth daily e-mail update sent a message to approximately 1,000 students about Kim’s appointment that was laden with derogatory racial slurs. The “Generic Good Morning Message” (GGMM)—a list-serve administered by six students that is not affiliated with the college—sent an e-mail about Kim that directly attacked his Asian origins. “Yesterday came the announcement that President...
Harvard Medical School professor Jim Yong Kim was selected to be the 17th president of Dartmouth College yesterday, making him the first Asian American to ever lead an Ivy League institution...
...Cartagena's Old Town was once ransomed to the Spanish crown for 2 million gold pieces by Sir Francis Drake, and it was for centuries Spain's vault for its vast South American holdings. The city earned the nickname La Heroica, having endured hundreds of sieges throughout the 17th and 18th centuries - as evidenced by the 400-year-old walls, made of mined coral, that encircle the city. But for all of Cartagena's battlements, in the modern era it has been plagued by crime, its potential as a UNESCO World Heritage site marred by kidnappings and murders. (See pictures...