Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony reflects on the numbing cruelties of civil war, a "domestic fury" so dreadful "that mothers shall but smile when they behold/Their infants quartered.../All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction. Strife that has fed on vengeful mythologies and minor cultural differences was succumbing, among many southern Slavs, to a universality of victimhood. Around the western Balkans, sorry droves of refugees could almost have exchanged identities as they toted...
Keeping pace with a national trend, custom publishing on the Harvard campus has increased sharply in the last few years...
According to a new report on custom publishing on college campuses prepared by O'Donnell and Associates, a Connecticut-based market research firm, compilations of articles and textbook chapters like sourcebooks and course packs are the "only growth area" in textbook publishing...
...that would appear to be natural ideological allies of the g.o.p. revolution, like agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland and pacs for Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. When word of the guide leaked, furious lobbyists denounced it as "an enemies list," a violation of the Washington custom that you can do the fandango with just about anybody if it will help your cause...
Sitting at the foot of a rabbi among a group of students, wearing his large, Knitted yarmulke on his head and looking at a Hebrew text of Talmud in his lap, Michal J. Geller '95 participates in the age-old Jewish custom of arguing...