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...logy. But with Heston now the go-to hero, it guaranteed that he'd be cast in his finest role: el Cid. In this Anthony Mann film, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is an 11th-century Spanish soldier who tempers force with wisdom, seeking a peace with the large local Islamic minority it is his job to subdue, and preaching moderation in the Court of King Ferdinand. Almost a pacifist warrior, he spends most of the film debating large issues with other beautiful people (Sophia Loren, John Fraser, Raf Vallone) - until the film's final battle, when, nearly dead, he orders...
...have looked into several alternatives, including leasing Bunsen burners from other facilities such as MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Emerson, Suffolk, Wellesley, Babson, Amherst, Brandeis, Northeastern, UMass-Boston, Berklee, Simmons, Bunker Hill Community College, and Lesley. Unfortunately, despite the abundance of Bunsen burners at neighboring colleges and local high schools, some of which are only a minute’s walk from Harvard, we have ruled out that option as a logistical unreality. We also decided against considering any equipment used for heating, sterilization, and combustion other than Bunsen burners...
...Almost as soon as freshmen first arrive on campus—in between awkward theatrical performances about contraception and date-rape, and ultimately futile, furtive searches for beer—they begin to feign an interest in baseball just as the local team wraps up its season. No matter if they are from Baltimore or Bakersfield, Bucharest or Beirut, many Harvard students—for a month at least in early autumn—are rabid Red Sox fans...
...Unlike the NBA and the NFL, with their seamless integration into popular entertainment, their close affinities with the vapid celebrity culture of glossy magazines and MTV, and their nationwide audiences, professional baseball has generally remained a local affair. Teams count their most loyal devotees almost entirely within the regional base, and only seldom are regular-season games broadcast to a wider audience. Americans may, in theory, value mobility: but when it comes to baseball, carpetbagging fans, for good reason, are often shunned and scorned...
...have a national slogan: Build the Socialist Countryside!" explained Sun Hai Yan, a member of the local government in Huaxi. "Others build socialism on the ground. We go one step further and build a new socialism...