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There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses of Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on your cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
...wine, all right--but not just any wine. According to a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Nature, the narrow-necked jar dates to between 5400 B.C. and 5000 B.C., making the stuff inside the oldest wine ever found--by at least 2,000 years. In 1993 a team led by McGovern found the next oldest wine, along with the oldest-known beer...
That final stretch of the season saw one of Harvard's oldest lacrosse records fall. Eckert, who was the Ivy League's leading scorer this season, tied Harvard's all-time scoring record, held by Grady Watts '62, with his 241st point of his Harvard career...
Brokaw is the oldest of three sons in an Irish, working-class family. His father, "Red" Brokaw, built dams along the Missouri River for the Army Corps of Engineers and stressed the importance of a strong work ethic...
...bonded with her. They listened wide-eyed as the only woman to head a FORTUNE 500 industrial company told them she would save jobs if they agreed to cut costs and boost output. Marvels Debbie Perry, who has spent the past 19 years stitching collar stays at America's oldest shirtmaker: "Miss Linda said she cared about the people who work here, and we believed...