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Students and House administrators alike have complained that, under the current system, too many students flock to the residences nearest to the Yard for their midday meal, crowding out the Houses’ actual residents...
...Despite the risks and the poor chances of success, hundreds of petitioners still flock to the State Council Office each day. Among them, a few days ago, were four middle-aged peasant women from nearby Hebei Province. They have brought their petition to Beijing once a month or more for a decade says Yang Shuxia, a thickset 59-year-old bundled in four layers of clothing against the bitter winter cold. She and her companions seek a fair trial for their jailed relatives. In 1994, Yang explains, her son and three of his friends were arrested by police and charged...
...years, baseball romantics have sung the praises of spring training, those six weeks in the sun where players fine-tune their skills for the upcoming baseball season. But while it may be a sweet deal for the Florida and Arizona locals, or the snowbirds that can flock down south to get cozy with their favorite stars, it's pure torture for the rest...
ISLAM'S SCHISM BEGAN IN A.D. 632, immediately after the Prophet Muhammad died without naming a successor as leader of the new Muslim flock. Some of his followers believed the role of Caliph, or viceroy of God, should be passed down Muhammad's bloodline, starting with his cousin and son-in-law, Ali ibn Abi Talib. But the majority backed the Prophet's friend Abu Bakr, who duly became Caliph. Ali would eventually become the fourth Caliph before being murdered in A.D. 661 by a heretic near Kufa, now in Iraq. The succession was once again disputed, and this time...
...film industry, and is now poised to appear in a movie theater near you.Introducing Randy Olson, a 1984 graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour in honor of Darwin Day. Olson is the kind of guy who banters about embryology over a hand of poker, and includes his mother, Muffy Moose, in a documentary about evolution versus intelligent design.Olson...