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This is the first year the Boston chapter of ASA, the nation's oldest, has named a Statistician of the Year. The award "is mostly to honor him and show the recognition of his peers," said Jimmy Thomas Efird, the chapter's secretary...
Well-known artists gathered last night in Sanders Theater to read poems and sing about bears, elephants and crocodiles at a benefit performance for one of the nation's oldest animal rights organizations...
...paper was bombed twice, most recently in September; the $2.5 million damage tally included destruction of the computer system and presses. Yet El Espectador has not missed a day of publication and has kept up the drumbeat against the cartels. Even harder hit was the country's second oldest newspaper, the Bucaramanga-based Vanguardia Liberal, which supported the government's crackdown and was all but destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says El Espectador's slight, bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that...
...parade was 80-year-old ANC official Oscar Mpetha, being pushed in a wheelchair. He was the country's oldest political prisoner before his release...
...library has more than 10 million volumes," I tell them. "And we are the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States of America...