Word: 18th
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Adultery may still be a sin in Connecticut, but it's no longer a crime. Last week Governor Lowell Weicker signed legislation repealing the state's 18th century law that made it a crime for a married man or woman to have sexual intercourse outside of marriage...
Harvard (2-8 overall, 1-3 Ivy) is currently on a five-game losing streak, having long ago dropped out of the national rankings. Meanwhile, Yale (7-6, 2-3) has dropped four of its last six games and has staggered to an unimpressive 18th position in the latest USILA poll...
...April 20, Harvard hosted the first two rounds of the NCAA Eastern Regional Volleyball Playoffs at the Malkin Athletic Center. (Did the sports editors know this?) The Crimson spikers defeated the East Stroudsburg Warriors 3-1 in the morning, but fell in a tough three games to Navy, ranked 18th nationally, in the afternoon...
Harvard's victory over West Virginia was sweet revenge. Last year, the Mountaineers upset then 18th-ranked Harvard to win the Eastern Region. Although the Crimson still managed an at-large bid by virtue of a fifth-place finish at Nationals in Louisville, Ky, the loss to West Virginia had been a bitter memory for the Crimson this year. The Mountaineers enjoyed a first-place ranking in the Eastern Region's preseason polls, two voting points ahead of Harvard...
...emulated and horrible examples to avoid. The old curiosity remained, to be sure; how else to explain the legends about Napoleon's sexual capacities and the insatiability of Catherine the Great? But the theological abyss between the saved and the damned strained the pursuit of objective truth. In the 18th century, Dr. Samuel Johnson, a devout Christian and a leading biographer of his age, complained, "There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks...