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Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC, pronounced alternately R-O-T-C and rot-see) lore is that two years ago a midshipman in uniform was asked by a professor to leave the class. But today, even strolling by a peace rally, onlookers are just curious, not irate...
...something no one wants to admit to using. Unsurprisingly, many of those reputed to be zealous perpetrators were unwilling to speak publicly about their exploits. Thus it is that with a few candid exceptions, the true efficacy of the H-Bomb is difficult to prove, further inflating the lore...
...down in matters of dogma concerning this verse or that one. So we've found it easier to become somewhat unified in Europe, as well as to integrate into European society." That humanism is personified in Haji Bektash, a 13th century Alevi holy man who, according to Alevi lore, encouraged people to turn the other cheek and love their neighbors. Alevis generally embraced Kemal Ataturk's separation of church and state in the 1930s, but their outsider status drew many to leftist politics. The Alevis in Germany started organizing politically in July 1993, after a mob in the Turkish city...
...much defined by acts of tradition (and images of wood paneled rooms and cigars convince me this may be a good thing) and although we often write on what is wrong about Harvard (the Core, the lack of community, the Core), the same sense of history and abundance of lore that made the other Cambridge so distinctive also infuses this one. I have come back to notice the little things: the Sargent murals in Widener, the way the afternoon light slants across the whiteness of the Memorial Church steeple, the words on Dexter Gate. These quiet moments, outside...
...castella cakes wafts out of bakeries standing amid sake bars decorated with red lanterns. Victorian-style European buildings have been preserved at Glover Gardens, a well-tended hilltop refuge named for Scotsman Thomas Glover who made his fortune in shipbuilding in Japan in the late 1800s. According to local lore, Glover's home inspired the setting for Puccini's Madame Butterfly...