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...Before they come in as Masters, our job is to say, you’re part of this very close-knit network of common interests and common commitment to the students,” said Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey...
...spring of 2009, Rachel Grant, a doctoral candidate in life sciences at London's Open University, was studying a population of toads in a large dry lake in central Italy. Common toads reproduce once a year, sometimes traveling great distances to gather at their breeding grounds, and Grant was looking at whether her subjects were using the cycles of the moon to coordinate their romantic encounters. (See pictures of animals wildly in love...
...reckless. Moreover, in the last few months the euro has lost more than 10% against the dollar, and the fiscal chickens have come home to roost. The central problem - as critics of the euro predicted before the currency's launch - is not Germany's tightfistedness; it is a common monetary policy without a common polity that sets fiscal policy. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...military and economic power makes it less dependent on American aid, but a more valuable ally. Likewise, Israel remains the most democratic nation in the Middle East, and is far more committed to women’s rights, gay rights, and other civil liberties than its neighbors. Finally, the common history of aid shared by the U.S. and Israel cannot be disregarded. A similarly valuable alliance could not appear overnight...
...Zane may not be the most common name in existence—according to babynamewizard.com, it has never been in the top 1,000 names for girls—but it doesn’t sound like a celebrity construct, like Apple Martin or Prince Michael II, a.k.a. Blanket. In Arabic, Zane means “beloved.” In Hebrew, it’s “gift from God.” The English language seems to think it’s a variant on “John.” And everyone?...