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...nest I had left. Then there was my father’s decision to drive to the Bronx and rescue what he described as a “Danish gentleman from the turn of the century,” a white-chested, overweight dog they named Blix. Scuppers, the oldest of the pack, even has weekly appointments with his chiropractor...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Dog House | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

Founded on Friday, Nov. 2, 1888, The Harvard Republican Club is Harvard’s oldest political organization and the oldest collegiate Republican club in the nation. Our founding meeting drew 9,000 attendees from around the state and country...

Author: By Mark T. Silvestr, | Title: Republican Club Event Gets No Coverage | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...about HRO. “So you’re playing in the orchestra now?” he asked, knowing I had not been very serious about musical involvement in college. I told him yes, and that I was loving it, happy to note that we are the oldest continually performing symphony orchestra in the country (est. 1808). Happy to tell him that our conductor, James Yannatos, studied with Bernstein and has been pegged for the assistant conductor position with the Boston Symphony. But happiest to tell him that we’re just really good...

Author: By Jessica S. Zdeb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Love It, I Want It | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

DIED. KAMATO HONGO, 116, believed to be the world's oldest person, who credited her longevity to "not moping around"; in Kagoshima, Japan. Hongo was born on Tokunoshima, a small island in the southern Amami Islands, an area known for its record-breaking centenarians. The oldest Japanese on record, who died at the age of 120 in 1986, was also from Tokunoshima. With Hongo's death, the distinction goes to Mitoyo Kawate, a 114-year-old woman in Hiroshima. Hongo had seven children, 27 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. She practiced teodori, a type of slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...years Age of the world's oldest condoms-made of pig and fish intestines-on display in a Dutch exhibition entitled "100,000 Years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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