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...Romans dealt with this through the ritual of damnatio memoriae, the condemnation of memory. To make it seem as if as a vicious person had never lived, all statues of him were destroyed or recarved, his name effaced from public inscriptions and documents related to him destroyed. The ritual provided a clear message that his behavior had been unacceptable and tried to remove the blot on the history of Rome that his crimes had created...
...already been to Foxwoods a handful of times, I know that I will lose $100 tonight, as I do every time I come here. Invariably though, other people do seem to win. The young Cambodian man sitting next to me at blackjack was, during the course of one hand, dealt the seven of clubs three times in a row, making him $5,000 richer, thanks to a $1 side bet. However, he tells us he's been dropping money into the casino every weekend for the past three years. He was probably...
...playing third base (the last spot dealt before the dealer) at Tony's table, and everyman's grandmother has claimed the spot next to me. She, unlike the others, is all too willing to talk...
Nevertheless, both parties could have dealt with the name issue without jeopardizing the already fragile bailout talks. Instead of sending a terse letter to the state asserting Harvard's right to the use of its name, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 could have found a more tactful way of bringing the issue to the table--perhaps after HPHC's future was a little more secure. Similarly, one wonders whether legal recourse was the only option available to the state...
...think this is really being dealt with at a level that reaches right up to the President and Fellows," Pei said. "Once a policy is established and a program put together, [the alumni association's] role will ultimately be as a vehicle and not as an originator...