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...circus pioneer Philip Astley joined the family business. At age 10, John could dance a minuet on three horses and so impressed Marie Antoinette that she presented him with a gold medallion. Lord George Sander, who gave himself the title and was Great Britain's equivalent of P. T. Barnum, was also born into a circus family...
...charge that Harvard is hostile to the new fields of study is "peculiar" and "unfounded," says Thernstrom, who is a social historian. Harvard has been a pioneer in the field, he says, citing the works of Handlin and Bailyn...
...member consultative council, and he also codified governmental protections of personal freedoms for 7 million subjects and 5 million foreign residents. Since the edict also affirmed the absolute authority of the monarch, it neither transforms Saudi Arabia into a model democracy nor positions Fahd as a regional pioneer. The Emir of Kuwait, for instance, has made a bolder pledge: to hold parliamentary elections next fall. Nonetheless, Fahd's decree represents a serious step toward including nonroyal voices in policy discussion...
Harvard's only score of the second half came from long-stick defender Eric Bentley who traveled coast to coast on a clear and fired as a shot past the Pioneer goalie...
...Crimson offense's only other goal came from senior attacker Chip Linehan who swiped a pass from the Pioneer goalie at the top of the crease and easily...