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...some 8,000 years earlier - that Spanish slave drivers could feed the army of conscripted miners they deployed to dig up the silver. As John Reader recounts in Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History, the flood of bullion proved more than the Old World could absorb. The unintended result: inflation that shredded Europe's social fabric, disrupted its monetary system and debased the precious metal itself. Blame it on the potato...
...enjoy most when students tell me that the class is making a difference or has made a difference in their lives. This is the reason why I teach. When they tell me they are happier or were able to understand something about themselves or their lives better as a result of the class... this to me is priceless.2. FM: Why do you think the class is so popular?TBS: Because people want to be happier. Whether it is at Harvard or any other place, people want to be happier. [...] There are over 200 campuses just in the United States alone...
...oppose the headscarf ban, and over 400 members of Turkey’s 550-member parliament voted for its repeal. Maintaining the ban despite such opposition would only foster further resentment against the government and its secular policies. The past generation has witnessed the ferocious backlash that can result against a blanket secularism imposed tactlessly, most notably in the streets of Tehran in 1979. Removing this prohibition would prevent the disintegration of the balance between secular and fundamentalist interests that has existed in Turkey since it became a republic...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The Harvard men’s basketball team finished its disappointing five-game Ivy League road trip Saturday night, and the result was as frustrating as the four previous contests...
...Crimson had trouble recovering.Knapp followed with another tough loss, 2-6, to Trey McLean, giving Penn a 17-7 lead. After a major decision loss by Dan Kelley at 125 lbs, Picarsic fought admirably, losing a 3-1 sudden victory to Bryan Ortenzio. While Picarsic’s result represented one of many stellar efforts by Harvard wrestlers, the ranked Penn squad proved too strong to overcome...