Word: 60th
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...rope next to the words ‘Freedom from slavery, torture, and degrading treatment’ was projected onto Widener Library last night as part of a series of black, white, and red words and images in filmmaker Julie Mallozi’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ‘60.30.1’ light installation by Mallozzi begins a week’s worth of events celebrating the anniversary. The piece, whose title is a reference to the 60 years since the 30 articles of the document were ratified...
...neck. And everyone kept walking. Bright, who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in 1976 and spent the subsequent 27 years in prison, spoke before a crowd of undergraduates as part of Voices of Innocence, an event organized by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates to commemorate the 60th anniversary of human rights’ universal declaration.Bright, in addition to two other exonerated prisoners who spoke during the event, said they were angry about the lost time they spent behind bars but stressed that forgiveness has helped them overcome their traumatic experiences.“The same system that...
...white-collar prison where he was serving time for securities fraud. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a fan, perhaps in part because her first son was born the very same year that "Scrabble" became a trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed of Scrabble tiles.) In countries like Senegal, Scrabble is an official sport. In fact, when Senegal hosted the French Scrabble World championship this summer, its government commissioned a special Scrabble song to mark...
...good enough for the top spot among Ivy League competitors and a ticket to the championships in two weeks. Freshmen Nicole Cochran and Kailyn Kuzmuk, along with sophomores Hilary May and Jamie Olson, rounded out the scoring for the young team, maintaining a tight pack between 50th and 60th en route to Harvard’s best team finish since 1997. “[The race] went really well,” Richardson said. “People were ready to come back and race hard after Heps, and we just wanted to go out there and have...
...event, it's too late for Johanna Staples, a kindergarten teacher whose husband Dennis, a popular disc jockey in Toledo, Ohio, died of a reaction to tainted heparin in January, a day shy of his 60th birthday. She says she's still afraid. "There are so many variables in how we receive our drugs that it's amazing there hasn't been a worse problem. Now look at all these kids sick in China because of tainted milk. Sometimes I get in a sheer panic thinking about...