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...specific events of history--the rise, domination and extinction of dinosaurs, for example--we seek no such generality, and specific narrations for bounded events supply the explanations we seek. Thus a particular asteroid, striking the earth 65 million years ago and leaving evidence of its impact off the Yucatan Peninsula, probably triggered a global extinction that sealed the fate of dinosaurs and many other creatures. In developing such evidence, we have explained a unique historical event, but we have not discovered a general law of nature...
Qatar, which is located on a peninsula north of Saudi Arabia, has a population of about...
...This writing of plays is a great matter," and nothing could be more the case at a Canadian theater festival named in his honor. The Shaw Festival will stage eight plays from March 31 through Nov. 11 in its three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, on the Ontario peninsula, just 20 miles from the falls. Two are by G.B.S.--The Doctor's Dilemma and The Apple Cart--and the rest are by Luigi Pirandello, J.B. Priestley, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. Highlights of the repertory season this year include adaptations of Lord of the Flies, the 1954 best seller...
...says he is pleased with the increased tolerance of gays at Harvard but he adds that while the new conservatives are "more polished than Peninsula," Peninsula's ideas have remained on campus...
...place where Peninsula's ideas have not remained is in the mind of Brian Malone. Malone says since leaving Harvard and becoming a University of Virginia graduate student, he has decided to come out of the closet...