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...News? Harvard Investments * HMC recoups most of $1.5 billion in summertime losses. Pheeww! That was a close one! Mass. Army-Navy Store * Closing sale means cheap winter boots. Plus, maybe the Pit children will migrate elsewhere to buy their clothes. Work * In the week before break, papers mount up, leaving little time for anything else. Have a nice weekend, everybody...
Those of us in the religious minority celebrate our various holidays in the privacy of our rooms, or in other appropriately designated community spaces. Students celebrating Christmas are certainly free to do likewise--they can erect trees, mount wreaths, hang lights from their fire escapes, even construct nativity scenes in their own private domains. If they want to share their holiday they can invite friends over for a Christmas party...
...time or another most high schools in America mount a production of Guys and Dolls. This is not surprising: it's a solid performance piece with a clever story, jazzy songs and nothing too controversial or risque, unless your town is likely to be offended by dice games and chaste kisses. It's also weathered the years far better than most other golden age American musicals, with much more grit and character than, say, Oklahoma or South Pacific, which can really test the patience of even the most adoring parents. Plus, high school kids can be cute when wearing loud...
...this tradition they say that the god or the saint mounted the person, just as a rider would mount a horse," Matory said...
DIED. LORD HUNT, 88, old-school British soldier and explorer, and the brains behind the first trek to the summit of Mount Everest; in Henley, England. Then known as Colonel John Hunt, he engineered the historic ascent by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953. Hunt's oxygen bottle froze on the way up, and he never reached the peak...