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...American invention. The 3,000-year-old Rig-Veda tells of the Aryan god Indra's hatred for the black-skinned anasya. Han dynasty historians (right for the wrong reasons) believed yellow-haired, green-eyed people evolved from primates. The Babylonian Talmud attributes the blackness of Ham's descendants to Jehovah's curse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking About the Untalkable | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...Dunster tutor added that, while kosher food is available to all members of the Harvard community, "including those who prefer their bagel with ham," the kosher toaster cannot be used for non-kosher purposes...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Tutor's Letter Prompts Sharp Response | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...addition, the U.S. Marshall placed a parole detainment on Ingra- ham for a criminal record that includesthreatening a U.S. federal judge in 1984, breakinginto a car in Harvard's Soldier Field Park Stadiumin 1988, and a violating a former parole sentence...

Author: By Adi Krause, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Lacrosse Suspect Arraigned for Shootings, Assault | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...Buffalo Bills' super bowl loss cost New York Gov. Mario Cuomo a crate of buffalo wings (sent to Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, who had wagered a Virginia ham on the game...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News Of the Weird | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

...finally going hungry," contends Yaroslavl Deputy Pushkar. "But this is the way the rest of the country has always lived." Olga Ivanova supplements her meager monthly pension of 205 rubles ($2.28 at the current tourist rate) by selling eggs on a Yaroslavl street corner. She vaguely recalls buying smoked ham in a state-run shop six or seven years ago, but the only meat available now sells for 40 rubles (44 cents) for 2 lbs., or 20% of her income, at the free market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Unmerry Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

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