Word: lightness
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...Battling to Save the Cave Thank you for shining a worldwide light on the crisis in Lascaux, France [May 15]. Clearly the cave and its irreplaceable paintings are still at grave risk. The French government must end its secretive handling of the cave, the crisis and attempted treatments. A truly international, independent group of scientists and experts in cave art and conservation should be allowed to monitor and report to the world on the cave and its health. Lascaux is not an heirloom of French or even Western culture. It is an expression of the earliest experience of being human...
...Annie M. Riley ’07 won an easy victory. We had gingerly endorsed Voith and Gadgil on the basis of their platform, but we rescinded that endorsement before the campaign’s end after the most serious of the accusations came to light. The UC began the spring semester with the annual debate about finding “discriminatory” student groups, defined as any organization that in any way restricts membership or officer-ship on the basis of a long list of attributes, including sex and religion. Such had long asked for, and had occasionally...
...criminal investigation, which will probably produce charges against Marines for committing slayings, is expected to extend into the summer. Three months after TIME published the first account of the incident, new details about the events leading up to the fateful morning in Haditha have shed light on why a small group of Marines apparently abandoned all semblance of self-restraint in a deadly burst of vengeance. But other questions are likely to remain--about who bears ultimate responsibility for the killings, about other possible incidents of military misconduct in Iraq and about whether the U.S. can do anything to stop...
...globe for peace of mind even as he fled the demons of disappointment and bitterness nipping at his heels. A celebrity in his time, Holman subsided after his death into the darkness in which he lived. He, and readers everywhere, owes Roberts thanks for leading him back into the light...
...find out that you’re going home with a silver medal. But it was nice for us to find our speed there at the end—our boat refused to give up.”Meanwhile, the varsity straight four took advantage of its lightness in a field packed with heavyweight crews to race to an open-water victory. With two-seat Dan Kettler calling the race, Harvard blew away the competition in its heat and streaked to a time of 6:23.35 in the Grand Final, 2.6 seconds better than second-place Wisconsin...