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...this week’s many reunions will take place in front of the Tercentenary Theater audience this morning. Charles J. McNamara ’07, who will give the Latin oration, and Daniel J. Wilner ’07, who will deliver the English oration, will share the stage nearly four years after eating food sprinkled with dirt on the same Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP) trip as incoming freshmen...
...speaking the traditional greeting, “Salvete.” The Classics concentrator from Lowell House will then deliver his speech “Iohannes Harvard, Eques Iediensis”—“John Harvard, Jedi Knight”—entirely in Latin, a language that will be understood by few in the audience...
...somewhat partial to him—but he’s got experience, and he is bright and capable. He’s a skillful negotiator, and that’s what the job needs.” Bush cited Zoellick’s work in such fields as Latin American debt relief and the transition of post-Soviet economies as further evidence of his qualification for the post. Zoellick is also a noted free trade advocate. He said during the Wednesday press conference that this philosophy would inform his stewardship of the Bank. “The Bank?...
...word quarantine comes from Latin for 40, the number of days Venice required ships to stay anchored before landing to prevent the spread of the Black Death in the 14th century. Since 2002 the government has claimed broad powers to isolate anyone who poses a public-health threat--including those who may have been exposed but aren't yet sick--to contain a flu pandemic or a bioterrorist attack. Various states are flexing their muscles; authorities in Arizona have locked up a TB patient because he refused to wear a mask when he went outside. In New York, patients...
...battle a political priority, resuscitating the international Committee in Defense of the Altitude (first created in 1996 when FIFA tried to ban games above 3,000 meters but revoked the decision because of mass protest). And it's not a lost cause: FIFA has allowed that if the Latin American regional soccer federation can, before the June 15 FIFA executive committee meeting, produce medical evidence proving that high-altitude play is not a health risk, the decision will be repealed...