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Your retelling of D-day reminded me of my landing on Juno Beach with the Canadian 3rd Division. My first contact with the French occurred when I encountered the village cure. He had a sour look, perhaps because a shell had torn a hole in the spire of his 17th century church. "Bonjour, Monsieur le Curé," I greeted him. "Are you happy that we have come?" "Yes," he replied, "but I will be happier when you leave." Memories like this give me mixed emotions when I march with my fellow veteran survivors...
...Field," plans to make use of the materials at hand. The agenda includes digging up the South Yard, the site of the Old College and Indian College of the 1600s. Boston University Professor F.J.E. Gorman hopes his projected 20 students will be able to find evidence of 17th-century student ideologies--"evidence of student revolts," such as broken glass and dice and cards, from a time when gambling was forbidden...
...rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with friends in his 17th-floor suite and drifted off into a long-awaited deep sleep at midnight...
...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...
Much of the controversy centered on religion. The College, first a Puritan Seminary, became enmeshed in pitched theological battles as other denominations won seats on the governing boards. At the end of the 17th century, President Increase Mather fought unsuccessfully to turn the College into a Calvinist seminary. He failed, but after King William III nullified the College Charter in 1697, the debate began in the legislature. Mather continued to try to block non-Congregationalists from serving on the Corporation but still failed to have his wishes put in writing. Ultimately he was forced to resign...