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Historical-museum curators can be a contentious bunch--get between two of them debating whether the Smithsonian exhibit of First Ladies' ball gowns is real history, and you may want to John Wilkes Booth one or both of them. But nearly all curators will agree that they are battling a common enemy: public indifference. If you're in the history business, you're competing for shrinking wallets and tighter leisure time. Schools teach less history, so kids have less of an idea about what happened at your venue or why it matters. And those same kids have perhaps more veto...
...their war reservations and civil-liberties concerns would brand them as effete, are embracing the topic, and they appear to have found their voice with a steady insistence that Iraq has been mishandled. Thus, for the first time in the five years since 9/11, national security is a jump ball...
...sudden controversy over Pluto's planetary status after all these years [Aug. 28]? To call Pluto a planet, a watermelon or a beach ball changes nothing. It remains the same object it always...
...stretch to extend the team’s win streak to four.In the 37th minute, senior Tom Stapleton threaded a tight pass through a couple of Lions defenders to find streaking classmate Charles Altchek—the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year—who touched the ball once and then put it into the back right side of the net.After the break, Loyola Marymount (3-2) stepped up the pressure and was consistently challenging the Harvard net. A number of good chances from the Lions went just wide, while Crimson junior netminder Adam Hahn stuffed two offerings...
Harvard made a last-chance surge in the final minutes of play, and sophomore Erin Wylie took a through-ball from Hagner to narrow BC’s lead in the 85th minute...