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Harvard's oldest academic honor, the Detur Prize was awarded last month to 123 sophomores who received the highest grades in the Group I academic group during their first year...
...were to go back to the elements of the states and to examine the oldest monuments of their history, I doubt not that we should discover in them the primal causes of...the habits, the ruling passions, and, in short, all that constitutes what is called the national character." --Alexis de Tocqueville...
...poorer, Raffray, 77, expired on Christmas Day. His client, Jeanne Calment, celebrated the holiday with a sumptuous hotel banquet in her hometown of Arles. "We all make bad deals in life," she joked to Raffray when she turned 120 early last year. She is now officially the oldest person in the world...
...They take generational time to solve. The notion of taking the poor off welfare as a sort of cold bath is nonsense. I'm not arguing for the current situation. No one would. But nobody knows what is going to work. Why take a plunge in the dark? The oldest piece of conservative wisdom is to do things slowly...
...SHOW THE PHOTO OF A FOSSIL OF A sluglike creature and say it is the oldest known member of the line that led to humans. I think it is "lowlife" to pass that off on others. Look at the precision of the creation around us and be honest. There had to be a divine plan, a perfect order. The reason we don't want to acknowledge this is because then we would have to answer to a Creator who will hold us responsible for our actions. If you want to think of yourself as a descendant of a slug, fine...