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...course: aided by the heroics of T.E. Lawrence -- the legendary Lawrence of Arabia -- they helped oust the Ottoman Turks from the Bedouin homeland in World War I and later defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Libyan desert. One tank unit that punched into Iraq last week was the 7th Armored Brigade, World War II's famous Desert Rats, who helped drive the Germans out of North Africa...
...temperature was 21 degrees below zero, not counting the 20-m.p.h. winds blowing across the hilltop cemetery, as mourners gathered to remember a gruesome massacre. A century ago, on Dec. 29, 1890, soldiers of the 7th Cavalry slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women and children who had sought refuge under a white flag at a place called Wounded Knee. To mark the anniversary, descendants of the survivors came on foot and on horseback, some from hundreds of miles across the plains. They circled the chain-link fence around the grave site, saying their prayers in silence and burning sage...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson has only one meet left before Christmas break, a matchup against Army on Friday, December 7th. The Cadets' strengths lie in their freestyle events, but Harvard hopes to overtake them in the stroke and diving events. Crimson, 159.5-77.5 in Providence...
...theon-campus recruiting program, you should bechecking the Recruiting Bulletin Boards. They arelocated in the Recruiting Resource Center in thebasement of OCS. All Fall and Spring Scheduleswill be posted here as well as Bid Results,Recruiting Information, and Company Ads. Bidresults for February will be posted on Monday,January 7th and for March on Wednesday, February13th...
...rare moments of what one might call realism. One is the remarkable Olmec urn in the form of a hunchback, probably from La Venta; but its immense vitality suggests that in Olmec cosmology, cripples and dwarfs were invested with numinous power, along with jaguars and eagles. Another is the 7th century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like the comb of a cockatoo suggest a hieratic...