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...every week. Prior to each race, competing crews wager racing T-shirts, with the victors taking home the shirt of each crew they’ve beaten. Such practice would fall by the wayside under NCAA restrictions, destroying one of the more storied traditions of college athletics’ oldest sport...
...Lord caused his knowledge to dwell there, and he called it ‘Harvard.’” Our institution, set upon the beautiful banks of the mighty Charles River, has been a beacon of light, knowledge, and truth for hundreds of years. The oldest, and perhaps the only, true university in America welcomes you, prefrosh. We welcome the lucky few who have overcome staggering odds and grueling competition to reach the pinnacle of academic achievement: an acceptance to Harvard University. Many will tell you to ask yourselves, “Is Harvard right...
...creek, it's hard to avoid a bit of communing. Located 90 minutes by car northwest of Cairns on 30 acres of rain forest next to the Daintree River, the Eco Lodge offers visitors a front-row seat at one of nature's greatest shows: the world's oldest continuously surviving rain forest. Dusk on any of Daintree's screened-in balconies is a noisy delight as an invisible chorus of birds, frogs and insects serenades nightfall from the giant vine-draped ylang-ylang trees...
...said here in the interests of defending my son that is more nuanced than you might have heard. My children have seen hard, hard things. A violent father, racism, rejection, their identity questioned - French-born children of this nation made to feel like they don't belong. Djamila, my oldest daughter, had her head cut open as a child when her father threw a glass at her. Later, she was thrown out of a teenage party she'd been invited to by a father who said Arabs weren't allowed in the house. Three days later, she slit her wrists...
...Nadia, my other daughter, has had hard times and has bouts of depression, but lots of people do. She's not mentally ill. Neither is my oldest son, Abd Samad, though he is also an Islamist radical: a Habishite, who hates the Wahabists like Zacarias, and consider them traitors and rivals. This is the success story the prosecutors pointed to to prove Zacarias' actions couldn't be the result of family mental histories or other common troubles...