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...part of the ramp-up for Stanford’s recently launched capital campaign—the largest in the university’s history??Etchemendy led a university-wide needs-assessment process, according to Taylor...
...Cambridge in the summer of 2003, she did what any proper Oxbridge don would do: she bought a bicycle. Shortly after being inaugurated as the 344th vice-chancellor of Cambridge—the first woman to hold the position full-time in Cambridge’s nearly 800-year history??Richard rode that bicycle into a cow. The pink pages of London’s Financial Times picked up the story...
Last night, however, in a small gym in New Britain, Conn., the Crimson men’s basketball team did just this, playing a game for the record books. And although it does not hold the same gravity of history??s greatest, the team’s improbable 72-65 18-point comeback victory over Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) was, if not anything else, miraculous...
...World: History??s Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson—History can repeat itself...
...much like Islamist suicide bombers—were fed a false account of their own cultural heritage. They were told that the samurai code, “bushido,” required self-sacrifice rather than surrender. But the Japanese military’s mantra repeated a fabricated history??according to Thomas, “many ancient Japanese warriors had been prisoners of war.” The scholarly Admiral Kurita penetrated through the “bushido” ruse. Too many of his countrymen...