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Atleast 10 undergraduates and alumni who are affiliated with the group will take part in the relay that follows a circular course through the Yard and Law School. The race will begin tonight in front of the John Harvard statue and will end sometime Sunday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veritasathon | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...picture evolves through a circular discussion of different aspects of the man, rather than unfolding in a sequentially predetermined order. In this sense it is an unorthodox biography. There His no chapters, no neatly presented "phases," no strictly chronological pattern in Hildesheimer's story. His introductory remarks on the problems of writing about Mozart spill over, undivided, into the first chosen issue of the biography...

Author: By Mark Murray, | Title: Puzzling the Unexplainable | 4/14/1983 | See Source »

Carved of gray-brown volcanic stone, Borobudur consists of a large platform, roughly 400 ft. on each side, surmounted by a wedding cake of five progressively smaller square terraces. These are topped by three circular layers. Crowning the entire structure is a bell-shaped stupa. Dozens of statues of Buddha line the balustrades on each level. Ancient Javanese architects, under Hindu influence, designed Borobudur as a model of the Mahayana Buddhist cosmos; the various levels represent the ascending stages of enlightenment that must be passed before nirvana, or spiritual freedom, is reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Monumental Effort in Java | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...idea was simple--to travel around the country in a circular route, stopping at any town that sounded interesting, and avoiding at all costs the multi-lane interstates that transform the landscape around them into identical blurry lines of trees from Boston to Seattle. He would stick to the back roads, the blue highway, and find towns as yet unmolested by the Howard Johnson convenience pitstop of the American superhighway. By the time he returned to Columbia, he had traversed some 11,000 miles in three months on the road...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Small-Town Blues | 2/19/1983 | See Source »

...When I was studying philosophy, "she says, "we did not get that I think it was assumed that we should know these things such as what a circular argument or an ad hominem argument was, but I never felt we went into that with sufficient care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Woman...Of Ethics | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

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