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...goal in mind now for Nyamekye and the Crimson team is the Ancient Eight championship, a prize that is at their fingertips following Brown’s loss to the University of Pennsylvania over the weekend...
...been drawing tourists, however, and today museums, restaurants and hotels have started to move in. Among the latter is L'Hotel in Pietra, hotelinpietra.it. When Brazilian owner Cristina Bergamini first stepped inside the abandoned 13th century church that would become the hotel, the white stone of the church's ancient walls was black with soot and its floor was buried under decades of garbage. "I could show you some photos you wouldn't believe," says Bergamini...
...mention several groups throughout history that have used self-destructive techniques such as suicide bombings. Why is it most commonly associated with the Middle East? There have been self-destructive groups throughout history, some aggressive, such as the Zealots in ancient Israel, and some pacifistic, like the early Quakers. I even regard Gandhi as an individual who was given to self-destructive impulses. The reason for the preponderance of this phenomenon in Middle East today is not the different nature of Islamic faith or moral values. It is first and foremost the social disruptions that these parts of the world...
Critics of lavish executive compensation can be forgiven for sounding weary; their fight goes back to ancient Greece. Plato recommended that a community's highest wage should not exceed five times its lowest. By the late 1890s, the banker J.P. Morgan had increased it to 20 times the average. The Securities and Exchange Commission enacted strict executive-compensation-disclosure laws in 1938, but four years after that, the New York Times denounced President Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to cap Americans' pay at $25,000 (about $331,000 today) as a ploy to "level down from the top"; Congress rebuffed...
After a tough mid-season loss to Lafayette two weeks ago, the Crimson crushed another Ivy League opponent on Saturday. Harvard football (5-2, 4-0 Ivy) justified its place at the top of the Ancient Eight with a 42-21 victory over Dartmouth (1-6, 1-3) just a week after trouncing Princeton...