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...support randomization, but it has created some challenges for the Houses, because the Houses no longer have such distinct personalities,” says Ware, who entered his mastership in the first year of randomization...
...Whenever possible, we should draw distinct boundaries,” he said. “Basic research should be open, and scientific research should be either classified or unclassified...
Tonight, on the first anniversary of the 2002 Olympic women’s hockey gold medal game, Harvard and Princeton have a 7 p.m. faceoff at the Bright Center. As distinct as those games may seem, there are common threads. Foremost among them, Harvard’s Jennifer Botterill will still be making history...
...Napolitano ’05) disguises himself as his personal valet (all the better to be the voyeur with, my dear!), and a pair of golden bracelets replaces the glass slipper Cinderella leaves on the ballroom steps, so that none of the actors go unshod—a distinct taboo in the days of Roman censors...
...deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave dealer, James Stanfield, composed an epic of several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London, was born aboard a slave ship en route from Africa to the Spanish West Indies in 1729.) In 1805 the Irish immigrant and repentant slaver Thomas Branagan published two huge epic poems against slavery, including the autobiographical...