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Many tribespeople made the journey on foot, juggling colorfully wrapped loads of household goods on their heads. Along the way, dead cows and birds dotted the hills. Some refugees tucked cotton in their nostrils to dampen the sickening stench of decomposing animals. The surviving white Brahman cattle lumbered dumbly at the sides of the columns, responding sleepily to the harried urgings of herdsmen carrying long, thick sticks...
Despite these inauspicious beginnings, the little school that Cotton Mather called a "college of divines" slowly grew. William Stoughton, '50, who grimly sentenced 20 people to death for witchcraft, was the first alumnus to donate a building. (By contrast, the Rev. George Burroughs, '70, duly became the only Harvard man to be hanged for consorting with Satan...
...reputation still flourishes, if only as a mystique accumulated through time, like the water particles that make up an imposing cloud. "The very name Harvard has a kind of resonance," says Alumna Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago. Harvard is, after all, the school that educated Cotton Mather and Robert Oppenheimer and whose former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Henry Rosovsky, turned down the presidency of Yale in 1977 because he had important work to do at Harvard. It is the university where a student named Henry Thoreau pronounced himself bored, but where such...
...bowl of M&M's on a table in the reception room. Lauren's personal office contains some of his favorite props: a wood-burning fireplace, a fleet of toy racing cars, family photographs and piles of fabric swatches. He often wears a studiedly scruffy uniform: a cotton work shirt, faded Levi's and well-worn cowboy boots. "This is who I am," he claims...
...than it had before President Reagan ordered the firing of 11,438 striking controllers in 1981. Since many of the replacements are relatively inexperienced, they protectively, and prudently, tend to space out aircraft even beyond the recently tightened requirements, slowing movement. "The skies aren't crowded," insists William B. Cotton, manager of United's air-traffic system. "It's the air-traffic-control system that's crowded." The strain was compounded last week when 34 of the 238 air-traffic controllers at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Center at Palmdale were suspended from radar duty pending a probe...