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...many of the competitors belied the championship's accessibility. Both six-year-old Daniel Hop and 64-year-old Grada Ooms, members of the Netherlands' team, traveled to Budapest in an attempt to qualify and compete. Like many others, innate ability propelled Hop and Ooms, respectively the youngest and oldest competitors in the 2007 championships, to the sport's most prestigious tournament. Ooms solved her first cube only six months ago whilst young Hop has been cubing for only a year...
...most Calcuttans, the past is good enough. Mohun Bagan Athletic Club, the oldest Asian sporting club in existence, was founded in 1889 by a group of upstanding middle-class Bengalis keen to prove their mettle against the British. They named it after one of the many Victorian villas in the densely colonial north of the city where most well-to-do Bengalis lived. From its founding, the club was consciously modern and nationalistic, eager to cast off the much-invoked colonial stereotype of the effeminate Oriental. Drinking and smoking were strictly forbidden, and young athletes, some scouted from remote villages...
...Columbia University, the nation’s sixth-oldest institution of higher learning, academic freedom allegedly reigns supreme. The administration there welcomed, to their ivied quads, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a virulent international opponent of the United States who in his country has presided over the dissolution of civil rights, an escalating assault on religious minorities, and the continued encroachment on free speech—everything anathema to a university proud of diversity and openness. And, moreover, they gave him a forum from which he might ridicule everything for which the university—and our country—should...
...after year. Most of them are members of the Patriot League, probably the conference most similar to the Ivy League, in terms of philosophy and geography, in collegiate athletics. Although just over two decades old as an organized conference, the Patriot is full of history: Lehigh-Lafayette is the oldest (yes, even more ancient than Harvard-Yale) and most-played series in college pigskin. Army and Navy, which belong to the Patriot League in other sports but play football as independents, have also been playing since before the forward pass was legalized...
...Beijing, no matter how much the city has changed. A similar artistic quality was present in the small medical college where I worked, Xiehe Medical College. The university and attached hospital were primarily composed of flat concrete structures, as dismal and dingy on the inside as their exteriors.But the oldest parts of the hospital were designed to replicate a royal palace that had once stood on the same grounds. Traditional architecture disguised dusty hallways that were crowded with patients and modern medical equipment, in an even closer juxtaposition of Beijing’s “high?...