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Will L. Rhett '92, Adams house committee chair: After declaring that "Adams House needs new checks," Lauderdale, the house committee treasurer, donned a salmon-colored dress, grabbed a whip and lunch pail and marched off to the bank. He return with Country Living-style checks, boasting pastoral scenes of geese...
Cow tipping, Harvard classmates have told me, is a popular weekend activity at other, more pastoral Ivy League campuses. One person stated quite authoritatively that the Cornell newspaper regularly carries letters from local farmers urging students not to tip their cows because "it lowers their milk production."
There seem to be fresh winds blowing across the church. Things thought to be impossible a short time ago are coming to be," preached Barbara Harris in the fall of 1988. She was referring to her own imminent consecration as the first woman bishop in the history of the Episcopal...
The new law removes the most formidable barriers to church life, starting with the absence of property rights for religious groups. Previously, houses of worship existed at the whim of Communist bureaucrats, who confiscated tens of thousands of churches and mosques. Charitable and pastoral work beyond church walls was forbidden...
There is a growing consensus that to send such things around the world, or even to move them at all, verges on the irresponsible. Yet museums still feel obliged to lend paintings as hostages to others to ensure reciprocal loans. Only this can explain, for instance, why the National Gallery...