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...Handel & Haydn Society--presents its annual performance of Haydn's Messiah under the direction of John Nelson. At Boston's Symphony Hall. Friday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $100, $40, $32, $23 and $16 and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets...
...ethnic, racial and cultural groups function as support networks for many of those who belong to them. Nelson B. Boyce '92, a BSA member, says, "the common thing at the base of the whole matter is that we're all Black and in that, we should come together and celebrate Blackness, and look out for one another and make sure that not only do we graduate, but that we all graduate with honors...
...Robert K. Massie notes in Dreadnought (Random House; 1,007 pages; $35), the Portsmouth review marked "the high-water mark of British naval supremacy," which had gone virtually unchallenged since Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory over a French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter years of the 19th century, however, France and Russia had constructed seemingly formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that...
...last 12 months, though, the South African government has released anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela after 27 years of imprisonment, lifted the ban on the African National Congress and repealed several major apartheid laws, including the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the Separate Amenities Act, which segregated all public facilities...
Some members of the advisory committee have pointed to the release of Nelson Mandela and the repeal of some apartheid laws as signs of marked improvement in the country, arguing that Harvard should send a message that it appreciates these recent developments, according to the report...