Word: 18th
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...November 18th, the same day as the renewal of the Harvard-Yale football rivalry, Harvard will head off to Hanover, N.H. to play Dartmouth. It will be the Crimson's first chance at revenge against the team that ruined its national title hopes last season. Ruggiero will definitely be listening to the radio broadcast...
...Revenge motivated the leaders of the U.S.-based MS, whose initials stand for "Salvatrucha Gang," to order Cortes killed. They blamed him for his failure, while leading the gang inside the penitentiary, to defend his members against an attack by rivals from the 18th Street gang. It had been the worst prison massacre in Honduran history: While the MS slept on the floor of their cramped dormitory, members of the "18" had sneaked in with homemade knives and steel pipes and killed 11 of Cortes's homeboys. The attackers then gutted their victims and triumphantly strung their intestines along...
...trouble, of course, is that most of the heat flows up the chimney. Count Rumford's 18th century fireplace design (shallower, built to throw more heat back into the room) helps a bit, but the basic idea remains Paleolithic. There have been times during subzero winter power blackouts when we have pulled a futon next to the fire and slept there, curled up as close as we could get to the heat without igniting the blankets. On the other hand, the wood stove in the kitchen radiates efficient gemutlichkeit--a cloying heat, like the house on a Thanksgiving afternoon that...
When the 19th Undergraduate Council sat down this year to draw up a budget, it found less money than the year before waiting for it in the term bill fund. The same thing happened to the 18th council before it, and the 17th council before that...
...story of a ruler who accosts ladies-in-waiting and lashes out profanities at his court sounds vaguely reminiscent of a recent political scandal. But the first Mainstage show of the fall season is not a political satire but a sympathetic and often funny look at 18th-century England...