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...Hammurabi, the sixth King of Babylon, had used an aggressive military policy to conquer rival city-states and to establish Babylon as Mesopotamia's political heart. But Hammurabi was concerned about more than expansion, as demonstrated by the magnificent Code of Hammurabi stela, a 7-ft.-high (2 m) column of basalt upon which he inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian script that predates even hieroglyphics. Although its prescriptions sound cruel today ("If a man commits a robbery and is caught, that man will be killed"), it helped him craft his image as a just ruler...
Juliet S. Samuel ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...gong is struck three times to signify the start of a prince’s quest, and the audience in Lowell Dining Hall is transported from the surrounding coziness of column-strewn walls to the lush majesty of legendary Peking. The Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) ambitious 70th anniversary production, Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” successfully transforms the dining hall into an exotic and vibrant vision, where the power of love reigns supreme...
...hope when the movement whose existence Quraishi denies removes the man he calls “no dictator” in Pakistan, Mr. Quraishi will not have “no job”.Samad Khurram ’09 is a government concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...straightforward answer to this question is simple, although the effects of the column are more profound. One of the two editors of The Press’s opinion section wrote the column. Then it went under review by both opinions editor Amanda Pehrson and Editor in Chief Cassie Hewlings, who decided to run the column. “I was really hoping the article would be thought-provoking and didn’t want it to be hurtful at all,” the editor-in-chief later said. A disclaimer was considered, and then decided against...