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This past fall, I was informed that due to overcrowding I would have no chance of moving into my house until next year at the earliest. After hearing this news, I went to University Hall and asked if I would be allowed to transfer to a house that had space. The Housing officer told me that I had not spent the necessary two terms of residence in a residential house to be allowed to transfer interhouse. I was thus stuck with living off-campus for another of my few years at Harvard because I had chosen a crowded house...
...great paradox tormented Stone as he confronted the Greeks. Athens was the glory of Hellas, "the earliest society where freedom of thought and its expression flourished on a scale never known before, and rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...
People have learned to live with the knowledge that they will die. But the evidence that entire nations, apparently invincible behemoths, may be similarly fated has proved the source of enormous curiosity and awe. The Old Testament exclamation "How are the mighty fallen!" was only one of the earliest recorded responses to the spinning wheel of fortune. Ever since, the rubble of old realms has teased and provoked imaginations. In the 18th century, a visit to Rome inspired Gibbon to write an enduring history of imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient...
...outspoken opponent of apartheid, Anthony Bloom, chief executive of the Premier Group, a giant milling concern that had sales last year of $3.1 billion, has long been one of South Africa's foremost liberal businessmen. His company was among the earliest to recognize the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising as a workers' holiday...
...problem is so entrenched in our species that it can only be rooted in our past. (Anything rooted in our future would be too speculative to merit discussion.) The earliest human writers were Cave Men who recorded their activities in Cave Language each day with Cave Pens on Dinosaur Hide. This proved disastrous when the dinosaurs selfishly decided to sink into deep and ubiquitous mud pits that, for advanced scientific reasons, appeared directly under each and every dinosaur far more than 20 years...