Word: digging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determination to conduct a jihad (holy war) against the Soviet occupiers of their country, they are going back home. What they find is not encouraging: entire villages destroyed, orchards burned, fields defoliated. Yet the returning men are rebuilding the fallen roofs and tumbled walls of their former homes. They dig tunnels and enlarge caves to accommodate dwellings, schools and medical clinics; they farm by night, when no MiGs or helicopter gunships fly overhead; they use homemade weapons and their knowledge of the difficult terrain to foil the relentless ground attacks of the Soviets. Robert Schultheis, an American freelance writer, spent...
...aboriginal skulls, each more than 10,000 years old, from being sent to an exhibit of human evolution at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Declares Lawyer Jim Berg, an aborigine who has been a leader of the campaign for native rights: "We don't dig up white people's cemeteries, so why should they be allowed to dig up ours...
...then this old man runs by. This other sergeant says, 'Get him, Edwards.' But I missed the old man. Now I just shot the head off a snake. You dig what I'm sayin'? Damn near with one hand. M-14. But all of a sudden, I missed this old man. 'Cause I really couldn't shoot...
...Soviets dig in, Mitterrand chides them about Sakharov
Here's short review of some of the more interesting--or just plain strange--courses being offered at Harvard this summer. If you'd like to dig up the Yard, listen to jazz, or watch old movies, or even if you'd just like to write about yourself, there's bound to be a course...