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...TERRIBLE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES OF THE 18th century, thousands of Scots were driven from their farms so that landlords might turn the fields over to the mass grazing of sheep, a more efficient and profitable enterprise. The wool business prospered. The Highlanders starved or went to America. It was the end of one way of life. Or the beginning of another. Economics uprooted culture, and changed everything...
Members of the Harvard community expressed mixed reactions to an alumnus donating a Colorado Highland ski resort to the University...
...flee the country; two of her sisters went to the mountains to join guerrilla forces there. More than 120,000 people have been killed in the 30-year rebellion against Guatemala's successive repressive governments. Security forces are blamed for as many as 50,000 deaths, mostly highland Indians, during the counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s...
Back at the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of America's third largest automaker, platoons of loyal lieutenants toiled in his broad shadow, the best of them hoping to inherit the Chrysler crown one day. Yet, as the years passed, Iacocca led an elaborate executive-suite game of musical chairs. Somehow, every time the music stopped, Lee was still in the chair -- and eventually no fewer than five leading contenders for his job were left standing idly on the sidelines...
Anthony's Upstairs--156 Highland Ave., Somerville. 628-4220. Club Oasis on March...