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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...problem hasn’t changed much in the intervening seven centuries??€”or at least in the last 365 years—as more and more land has found its way into John Harvard’s cold, clammy fingers. The secret purchase of 58 acres across the river caused widespread unease among Allston residents; they also evoke Mortmain’s prohibition on acquiring lands “by art or wile...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dead Hand of Harvard | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that example, that spirit of war, that flung the early Islamic empires outward to the corners of the earth, that spirit that inspired militant Muslims down through the centuries??€”a spirit that divides the world into the House of Islam and the House of Unbelief, and declares irrevocable enmity between them...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ideology of Our Enemies | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...seeking to move its facilities into the next century, Carolina needs to remember its ties to its city. Carolina cannot forget what has made it special in the past centuries??€”something for which no number of buildings will ever substitute...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHAPEL HILL: Town and Gown in Chapel Hill | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

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