Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men's squash team (10-1, 6-0 Ivy) soundly defeated its Yale counterpart (15-2, 5-1 Ivy) 9-0 in a match at the Murr Center for its ninth straight Ivy crown. The Crimson dropped just four total games in the match. HARVARD 9 YALE...
Siggins Schmidt described the anniversary concert as the ultimate introduction to folk music any Harvard undergraduate could hope for. Pamela Means began the show with a short set of soft-spoken, dark songs. Her hair, a square mass of dreads, sat on top of her head like an underground crown. After her, with far less hair, the Charles River Valley boys played a set that sounded more like the Ohio River Valley than the Charles, closing with a few Beatles covers that underlined the concert's sense of retrospective solidarity...
...Prince Abdullah, made successor three weeks ago, is on the Jordanian throne. The abrupt dismissal of Hassan as crown prince did not elicit too much surprise in Israel. Abdullah has his father's politics and his father's support among the key factions of Jordanian society: the Beduoin tribe that hold the commanding posts in the military. But the predicted success and stability for the reign of the next Hashemite king was only a side-bar to the real feelings on both sides of the Jordan River this weekend: how to say goodbye to an ally who became a trusted...
...ruler of Jordan for 47 years, left abruptly for emergency cancer treatment in the U.S. last week, there was a brief royal decree, a kissing of cheeks and an elegiac command on behalf of his people. "Achieve for them," the 63-year-old monarch told his newly anointed successor, Crown Prince Abdullah, 37, "a dignified life...
...unprepared as they were for life after Hussein, many Jordanians took comfort watching the new crown prince going about his first official duties. As he stood in Raghadan Palace, shaking hands with thousands of subjects--army officers and Bedouin chiefs, imams and Palestinian businessmen--Jordanians took note of the same strong yet polite way with people that was the magic of his father...