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...would always agree to that, but was never really sure of the nature of my assent, or, for that matter, of the nature of my ascent. For whenever I would mention the word "Harvard" in association with my name, the air of reverence I was being treated with would rise accordingly, and some-what disturbingly...
With the exit of this year's seniors and the ascent of the first years from the Yard to the houses, Harvard's residential system will become fully randomized for the first time in the history of the College. When the class of '98 leaves these hallowed homes, very few remaining students will have a personal memory of a time when the houses were chosen--even of the non-ordered, somewhat random variety of choice...
...royal baths. The 700-year-old watercourse speeds alongside a walkway before dipping underground to re-emerge over a huge cut stone with small man-made channels that project two cascading spouts of cool, clear water. Above, a young couple claims rights to the day's first ascent of the terraced ruins. For a moment I imagine what it might have been like to live under the Incan lords. Later my guide and I travel up a dirt track through a side valley to Huitoc, a tiny village even further dwarfed by the mountains than Ollantaytambo. The men of Huitoc...
...story of Mali's ascent out of poverty begins at 6 a.m. on March 26, 1991. Then Lieut. Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure--called A.T.T. by everyone--went on the radio to announce that he had just arrested his commanding general, the nation's President, and taken control. "I said that as soon as minimum security was established we would organize elections," recalls Toure. "And as soon as the elections were held, we would go back to our barracks...
Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report...