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...winning “hearts and minds” to ease the insurgency in Iraq. Gurfein also played a minor role as a Marine officer at Guantanamo Bay in the 1992 movie “A Few Good Men.” The second slice was given to the oldest Marine in attendance, John Brock, who was born in 1943. A corporal born in 1984 received the third slice as the youngest Marine in attendance. A Marine with a traditional officer’s sword, modeled on the Mameluke Sword awarded to a Marine officer by a Turkish viceroy...
...name just one science, achieved a high degree of sophistication, inspired, in part, by religion: Muslims needed to determine accurate times for the five daily prayers, the exact location of Mecca, and the beginning and end of the holy month of Ramadan. On display are some of the oldest texts and instruments related to the study of the heavens. They were created to answer specific questions, but they also uncovered natural phenomena that helped explain celestial processes. In his Book of Fixed Stars, 10th century scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi provided exact coordinates for 1,018 stars...
...Sunday in Memorial Church to commemorate the Harvard servicemen and women who have sacrificed their lives to serve their country. The church bell will toll once for each Harvard student in the history of the university to have died while serving in the military. As one of the oldest institutions in American, Harvard has had a long history of supporting our nation’s military. In fact, the day after George Washington was appointed by the Second Continental Congress as America’s first commander-in-chief, he first rallied and organized his army at Cambridge Common?...
DIED. GLADYS TANTAQUIDGEON, 106, medicine woman and oldest living Mohegan; in Uncasville, Conn. An expert on ancient-culture preservation, she collected tribal correspondence as well as old birth and marriage records that documented the tribe's history long after its reservation had disbanded. Her efforts helped boost the dwindling Mohegans into a federally recognized, 1,700-member tribe that now runs the successful Connecticut casino Mohegan...
...editor approached me with an idea, it would have to be pretty lousy for me to say ‘no,’” Wright says.Indeed, the idea that St. Martin’s pitched to Wright was anything but lousy. The nation’s oldest university had driven some of its own students to suicide—and then pulled off a nearly successful cover-up.St. Martin’s is a publishing house with strong Harvard ties—it prints the student-run travel guide “Let’s Go?...