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...Harvard’s painting] is in some ways improved upon in that the eyes are opened wider, the lips smile more, the shape of the ear is changed, and an extra hair swirl is added above the temple. This is just the sort of thing a copyist often does,” she wrote...
...quickly turned into a petty bureaucratic dictator, and a period of darkness fell over the realm of Harvard College. Students were imprisoned in hyper-specific studies of obscure topics. Cramped in overpopulated and under-taught classes, wails of bondage arose from the people. Finally, University Hall lent a kindly ear to the cries of the oppressed. And after years of internal debate, they released a grand plan to usurp the tyrant. “Let them have civics,” they cried, in a tone befitting Marie Antoinette...
Word of the kidnapping spread quickly among U.S. soldiers around Baghdad Monday night. Even pilots in the air heard about the disappearance soon after. I first learned of the abduction from a Blackhawk crewman, who shouted the news into my ear amid the roar of the helicopter's rotors...
...worldwide investment in agriculture?including machinery, land improvements and livestock?increased from $1.5 trillion to more than $2.1 trillion, according to the United Nations. Different types of foods are being grown, as basic crops have given way to speciality produce. Instead of growing sweet corn for sale by the ear in the marketplace, for example, farmers are harvesting and selling white corn for the production of tortilla chips...
...still going on, and we have a profoundly different public sense of what language to use and about the unacceptability of public discrimination. The immigration reform files today are almost entirely devoid of racist language and the sort of language that, 100 years ago, was taken for granted. Your ear, if you were transported back to 1915, would hear things you don't hear now, and it would be a shock. Does America generally have a history of welcoming or begrudging newcomers? We've always been of mixed minds about immigrants, and that's because immigrants bring both bads...