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...milestone in the history of this University, which historically has intensely discriminated against Jews. The first Jew to be a professor at Harvard was reportedly forced to convert to Christianity in order to be appointed, and when Jews finally began to be admitted to the college under harsh admission quotas, they were consistantly barred from full College participation...
...past few years—particularly since Sept. 11—a harsh economy has meant book sales are down, store owners...
Organizers of the event said this year’s particularly long, harsh winter postponed the championship event until last week, which was the established deadline...
Under the best circumstances, a parent's remarriage can enrich the entire family. In 1986, a year after her mother's death, Joan Reckdahl's father remarried at age 74. His daughter was delighted with his new wife Agnes, then 67. "My father was a harsh, demanding man," Reckdahl says. "If he had needed support, it would have been difficult for us to take him in." Following the remarriage, her relationship with her father improved dramatically, a shift she credits to Agnes. When he died in 1994, his estate was divided among his four children, according to the terms...
...with music by Samuel Barber. As might be expected, all six dancers were dressed in non-descript black and white and moved in a machine-like trance for parts of the piece. The title was well-represented in the dance and the music used in conjunction to the sometimes harsh movement allowed for subjective interpretation by each viewer on the broad range of what the piece’s title might denote...