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...taken a very long time to drag the Australian courts and government into admitting that the Aborigines owned their land before white arrival--that the doctrine of terra nullius (no- man's-land) was legally invalid. This finally happened in 1992, when Eddie Mabo, a member of the Meriam clan on the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait off northern Australia, successfully argued before the high court that his people had been there before the whites and had never given up their ancient rights of ownership. This was the first "native title" victory in Australian...
...Jason Johnson, 25, met Meriam Al-Khalifa, 19, in a shopping mall last year during his tour of duty in Bahrain, a tiny country off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Their love became so strong - and so forbidden - that Al-Khalifa was confined to her house; she contacted Johnson through secret letters. Then last November, when his tour was over, the couple sneaked out of Bahrain on a commercial jet with Al-Khalifa disguised as a Marine, her hair tucked into a New York Yankees baseball cap. They landed in Chicago, only to meet the stateside heavies: the Immigration...
...Boston. But by now, thanks to Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott and the dozens of other outriders who had spent the day rousing area patriots, thousands of colonials hid in the woods and behind the fences, lining the route back to the city. They routed the British, beginning at Meriam's Corner between Lexington and Concord, and gunned down the straight-shouldered regulars like the ducks in a penny arcade sitting ducks, thus proving the British military machine was not invincible...
...Grosveno House last week, Sir Ibrahim, the 85-year old Sultan of Johore, died of "genera debility." He had passed his last years quietly, watching TV. going to the theater, enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Sultana Marcella, and his adored eight-year-old daughter, Princess Meriam. "He was very rich, very brave and very, very fond of Britain," said the Daily Express, with an imperial sigh for the good old days. Men on three continents traded reminiscences about the strapping Sultan's prowess in love, tiger hunting and polo, told of his great generosity, autocratic tantrums...
...Robert Braucher '40, Professor of Law, Edward H. Chamberlain, David A. Wells, Professor of Political Economy, Arthur H. Cole, Professor of Business Economics, Gottfried Haberler, Paul M. Warburg, Professor of Economics, Alfred C. Handford, Professor of Government, Malcom P. McNair '16, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, and Richard S. Meriam '14, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Policy...