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Tsomides also started coxing at Exeter; in 9th grade, to be exact, when everyone had to participate in a sport. He was small at the time, and someone suggested he try out as a coxswain for the crew. "I really enjoyed it." Coxing, in fact, was one of the reasons Tsomides decided to attend Harvard. Almost everyone receives the form letter from rowing coach Harry Parker, but it usually does not arrive until after he's been admitted to the College. Tsomides, though, confesses his letter began "Dean Mr. Tsomides...
Following the Danzig exhibit, the museum is planning an exhibit for next fall of early photographs of the Near East, and an exhibit on early Islamic inscriptions from the 8th and 9th centuries to open in January...
...freshman David Barnes stroked past junior captain Ted Chappell in the breaststroke leg to win in 3:55.75. Barnes clocking and Chapell's 3:58.25 earned them both a trip to Milwaukee, Wise., for the NCAA championships later this month. Senior Tim Maximoff grabbed 6th junior Tom Vertin clinched 9th, and sophomore John Sappey placed 13th giving the aquamen 63 points in a single event...
...first, these unorthodox interpretations of revenge seem less personal than traditional-an attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat with its five peaked towers and massive stone gods. But fundamentally, Cambodia has remained a village nation, and the values of Pol Pot, not to mention his horrors, must have seemed as shocking as they were terrifying. The children in Khao I Dang have simple values. They have been taught...
...SEEMED AS THOUGH each of the guests at Edward L. Bernays' 90th birthday party last Sunday was having his own personal celebration. Over 300 had come from all over America and the world, wanting both to celebrate Bernays' 9th decade and to reaffirm their friendships with him. Bernays, founder of the public relations profession and nephew of Sigmund Freud, was having hundreds of parties all at once. Adopting his favorite professorial stance, Bernays had this to say about becoming ninety: "We have a chronological age, a physiological age, a mental, societal and emotional age. To be sure, my chronological...