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...imagined something a bit more picturesque. Something out of an eighteenth century etching, maybe—numerous overflowing baskets of glistening fruits and vegetables arriving in clipper ships from all corners of the globe, hawked by costumed vendors from various nations...
Puritans and history buffs alike will soon celebrate the 300th birthday of one of America’s greatest eighteenth century firebrand preachers, Jonathan Edwards. But it seems that Massachusetts has only begun its own Great Awakening, with a proposal to repeal some of Edwards’ favorite blue laws still on the books. Created by paternalistic do-gooders who simultaneously serve as legislators, blue laws are those bastions of moral purity, those pesky legal devices that regulate amusements and “immoral” activity—often keeping alcohol locked-up for certain hours or days...
While Harvard is only the third university to make Working Mother magazine’s eighteenth annual list, Gill says she thinks that the University’s citation this year could encourage other universities to apply for the honor next year...
There, he easily made his way to the finals, taking a methodical 3-0 victory over the Bantams’ fourteenth-seeded Yvain Badan and winning 3-1 versus eighteenth-seeded Nadeem Osman of Trinity. Against Osman, Broadbent dropped the first game 9-5 before cruising in the next three...
Times were rough, what with the Second Gulf War having just entered its eighteenth depressing year, and I thought it would be a nice idea for me to take my son on a trip out of town for the weekend. I managed to leave New York and the i-banking job I never thought I’d find myself sucked into (what the hell happened to me?!), and took ten-year-old Marty Jr. on the early Amtrak to Boston...