Word: civilizations
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...crucifixion of Jesus, the standard chronology would make it outright impossible that this event occurred on any "13th" if the Last Supper took place on the 15th of Nisan (i.e. the first evening of Passover), the first month of the ecclesiastical calendar and the ninth of the civil calendar. November...
What do we do in response? One option is to follow the example of the Columbia student protesters and close ranks on our opponents. Certainly we Harvard liberals could use a lesson or two in civil disobedience; when Connerly spoke here in April, more noise was made about predictably insensitive comments by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in introducing the regent than about Connerly himself. But would preventing the airing of prevailing conservative ideology do any good? If we are already in a minority, why further alienate the majority...
Tragedy is numbingly routine in Central America. Poverty, earthquakes and civil wars have savaged the region for most of this century. Still, the Dantesque calamity that hit the isthmus last week may have taken suffering to a new plateau. As many as 10,000 people were estimated dead in the battered countries of Nicaragua and Honduras, while some 2 million were left homeless, in the wake of the relentless rains of Hurricane Mitch. In all, the storm caused a staggering $3 billion in damage--more than half the combined Nicaraguan and Honduran gross domestic products...
Coupling commercial techno-kitsch with the masterworks of Van Gogh and Picasso is like crossing the book Private Parts by Howard Stern with the Civil War diaries of Mary Chestnut. Thank you, Vegas, for your attempts at high art, but no thanks. A Warholian approach might have been more fitting. DOUG HATCH Madison...
...bridge was donated by Larz Anderson, Class of 1888, in memory of his father, Nicholas Anderson, Class of 1858, a major general of volunteers in the Civil War. The bridge reminds Harvard students in one of its inscriptions of their call to country...