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Hollywood has flirted with the poet since its infancy; this week the American Film Institute is showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY SHAKESPEARE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Today marks the renewal of the oldest (since 1898) continuous rivalry in collegiate ice hockey as the Harvard men's hockey team faces off against Brown in the season opener at Meehan Auditorium. And to think that most people thought that it was just another hockey game...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: M. Hockey Opens at Brown | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

Today at 1 p.m., Harvard will try for a more memorable result as it plays its last game ever at Palmer Stadium, which was built in 1914 and stands behind only Harvard Stadium as the oldest in the country. Next year, Princeton plays all 10 games on the road while a new 28,000-seat arena is built...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Football Looks for Second Straight Win Against Tigers | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

This rare tree, described by neighborhood resident and Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Elias J. Corey as "priceless," is the oldest of its species in the Northeast...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Residents Battle Proposed Complex | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

...scientists, is that Caucasoid features, while rare, are not unheard of in the remains of prehistoric Americans. They can also be seen in ancient bones from northern Asia. There's no reason, say experts, to conclude this was some sort of Neolithic Christopher Columbus. As one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Pacific Northwest, however, it could tell anthropologists an enormous amount about the lives and ethnic background of the people who first colonized the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONES OF CONTENTION | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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