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...meeting, 11 professors rose to speak on Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby’s proposal to introduce preregistration to Harvard College. And 10 railed against the idea. Some pointed out the logistical problems that preregistration would cause, including burying professors under a mountain of add/drop forms; some queried whether the proposal would even bring improved class-size predictions that Kirby had claimed, and some pointed out that the scheme’s introduction would be deleterious for undergraduate education, harming students and faculty alike. All hit the target...
...first game, Harvard took a 6-0 first-inning lead, but the Mountain Hawks (1-2) rallied back, roughing up Harvard starting pitcher freshman Wes Cosgriff for five runs. But with the Crimson clinging to a 6-5 lead, freshman Matt Brunnig (1-0) came in to relieve Cosgriff and silenced the Lehigh bats. In three innings of work, Brunning allowed only three hits and struck out nine...
...entirely craft, paint-by-number kits were all the rage during the 1950s and '60s. Originated by artist Dan Robbins, who took his cue from Leonardo da Vinci's practice of assigning numbered sections of his paintings to apprentices, the kits made it easy for the masses to create mountain vistas or the Last Supper. After the craze died down, the kits were left to gather dust on the back shelves of craft stores...
...tombs, wooden structures that had hung from the Leshan cliffs at seemingly impossible angles. "Why did they have to destroy something with so much history to build something silly and new?" asks Li Peide, an official at the tiny, underfunded Mahaoya Tombs Museum at the foot of the mountain where the Bamiyan replica now stands. "It doesn't make any sense...
...Salam Rahim heard the unmistakable, and familiar, crack of explosions skirting the hamlet. He reached for the Kalashnikov he keeps on his sitting room floor as his wife and children ran out the gate. "The women and children were scared and half of the people fled to the mountain behind us," he says. "Once we heard the mortars all the armed men of the village ran to the hill near the Iraqis...