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Welcome to Harvard. Oil paintings line the walls of dining halls where chandeliers hang from palatial ceilings. Georgian architecture characterizes first-year residences, separated from the city by a formidable cast-iron fence. Final clubs exude elitism. Everything points to one message: “Welcome fellow members of the ruling elite. Come view the amusements of the idle rich...
...civil aviation accident. According to recordings of conversations with the Milan control tower, the Cessna pilot thought he was on a different taxiing runway. GEORGIA Fresh Fighting The smoldering conflict between Georgia and its breakaway province of Ab-khazia flared up when a troop of Chechen rebels, supported by Georgian guerrillas, invaded Abkhazia and shot down a U.N. helicopter. When unidentified planes bombed Abkhazian villages, Georgia accused Russia of provocation and Georgian and Abkhazian troops rushed to Abkhazia?s Kodori gorge, where 1,600 Russian peacekeepers stand between the warring sides. The Georgian Parliament demanded that the Russian peacekeepers...
...wrote that "one law for the Lion & Ox is oppression" was also a passionate democrat, a republican. His views as a workingman (which printers were) aligned him with the most radical tenets of English working-class thought. He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine. He contemptuously referred to George III as "old Nobodaddy" and eagerly awaited his death. In an age when any utterance of disloyalty to the Crown could be and was severely punished, Blake was fearless in expressing his views. His sympathies flew to the weak and the downtrodden...
When I walk out of Massachusetts Hall, and do not go to the bookstores, then what? Mostly, I look at the buildings, trying to discover details that I have overlooked and compare small differences. Our three Georgian dormitories in the Yard, for instance, are really very different from one another, and I now have a reasonably clear idea of which one seems to me to be the best architecturally, which next, and which last...
...everyone looooves a peacekeeper. Need to expel some East Timorese? Get a solid start, then call the peacekeepers in, with red carpet to boot! Need to buff your Georgian signature on the Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe? Call in the international observers! What are guns, we good liberal democrats ask, next to a balmy blue? Or physical power, next to the moral power of that noblest of all goddesses, the international community...