Word: 7th
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...Muharram holiday is particularly significant to opponents of the Shah; it symbolizes the Shi'ites' struggle against an evil, corrupt leadership in the earliest years of Islam. The mourning, which culminates on Dec. 11, commemorates the death of the 7th century Imam Husain, a grandson of Muhammad who was beheaded by Sunni Muslims from Damascus intent on maintaining their rule over dissident Persians. Muharram is traditionally observed with huge processions through the streets, at which the faithful whip themselves with chains or draw blood with knives and swords in anguished enactments of Husain's suffering...
Daniel Gil's December 7th article on the Harvard men's soccer team is in itself, to quote his headline, "a sad, familiar tune." After five years at Harvard and a 26-33-9 record, it is questionable why the Harvard men's varsity soccer program has to be George Ford's way to "learn how to relax with his players." It is regrettable that Mr. Gil could not find it in himself to take a more substantive stance on this issue...
...most popular item, which Rockefeller says has drawn 1,000 orders, is one of the least expensive: a $75 reproduction in unglazed clay of a Haniwa head, modeled in Japan sometime in the 5th to 7th centuries. Other popular sellers: $750 copies of a pair of andirons designed for Rockefeller by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in 1939; a $1,250 gold-plated bronze reproduction of a voluptuous female torso from a bronze cast sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. A slow mover is the $7,500 copy of the Rodin nude. Rockefeller, who has been collecting since the 1930s, invested...
...branch of Islam split off from the main Sunni branch during the 7th century; it now predominates in Iran and much of Iraq and Lebanon...
...great dramas of history was enacted between the 3rd and 7th centuries A.D.: the slow collapse of Rome, the fading of its empire and, with it, the death of the classical world. The age of Christianity was officially brought to term when the Emperor Constantine formally embraced the new faith and in A.D. 324-330 moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. But across the still vast spread of the imperial territories, which ran from the Euphrates to Gibraltar, there was no clean break with the old religions. For 400 years, the remnants of the pagan...