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Come fall, Harvard Yard will no longer have a Garden. That's not referring to some Harvard landmark unknown to casual acquaintances of America's oldest university. It simply means that after two years of using a former apartment building on 29 Garden St. as first-year housing, the College is once again placing all the frosh in Yard and Union dorms...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: UNDER THE HAMMER: | 6/29/1994 | See Source »

...roles have those creatures' characteristics. In Moche drawings, for instance, a strikingly arachnoid figure, dubbed the Decapitator by archaeologists, clasps a crescent-bladed knife in one hand and a severed head in the other. The supreme example of Moche craftsmanship was found atop the royal corpse in Tomb 3, oldest of the chambers: on each of 10 gold beads is a spider with a human face etched on its back. "The Moche communicated very effectively through their artistic depictions in the absence of a writing system," observes Donnan. "We need to become more sophisticated in our ability to work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golden Wonder | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...asked them to take down the license-plate number, one soldier replied, "It's none of your business." Hamad's son Sadir, 26, asked another soldier, "How could you let him go after what he did?" The soldier replied, "This is Israel, not the United States." When Hamad's oldest son Haitham, 31, a reporter for the Associated Press, arrived at the scene, he phoned the office of the army spokesman to report the episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jun. 27, 1994 | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Sources say the Lynx patterned itself on theBee, the oldest of the all-female pseudo finalclubs. The Bee registered with the state as anon-profit corporation in January...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Women's Groups Proliferate | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...oldest women's group on campus, longplayed the role of the women's representative oncampus. In fact, RUS once took a stand against thefinal clubs, denouncing them as elitist andsexist...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Women's Groups Proliferate | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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