Word: dos
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...annual Head of the Charles regatta brings visitors from all regions (of Andover and Exeter) to fair Cambridge this weekend. In the spirit of welcome we offer several dos and don't we hope will come in handy...
...million lives, is the loss of hope: a year ago, Neho and millions of others were queuing at voting stations, thrilled by the prospect of peace. The first free elections, held under U.N. auspices, were designed to end the war between the government of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, once backed by the Soviet Union and now recognized by the U.S., and Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the UNITA rebel movement. Savimbi refused to accept the government's 129-to-91-seat election victory and plunged Angola back into ferocious conflict that has so far claimed an additional...
...fall semester rolls around again, Harvard students turn their minds to buying their first, or a new, computer. Maybe you have one you'd like to upgrade. Here are some dos and don't's of computer purchasing, starting with reading this column...
Near the Mexican border of Guatamala, in the Maya city of Dos Pilas and the surrounding Petexbatun region, Arthur Demarest's excavations have put him at the forefront of the revisionists. He divides the history of the region into two periods: before 761 and after. Before that year, he says, wars were well- orchestrated battles to seize dynastic power and procure royal captives for very public and ornate executions. But after 761, he notes, "wars led to wholesale destruction of property and people, reflecting a breakdown of social order comparable to modern Somalia." In that year the king and warriors...
...Dos Pilas, Arthur Demarest is turning his attention to garbage piles. "Those are the most important finds," he says, "not the tombs, because you find everything they ate, their tools -- a real cross-section of life, in really good preservation." A colleague plans to study the chemical composition of ancient soil and pollen samples and exhumed human bones to learn more about the Maya diet, common diseases, agricultural practices and even what the climate was like...