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Despite often emotional debate over such incidents, however, bilingualism remains a scattered, mostly local concern. Demands that Spanish be granted equal status have been limited to places like Miami, where Hispanics have achieved a measure of political power. Similar claims for other languages are virtually nonexistent. Nor is the issue...
I have before me, as I write, the March-April 1982 issue of Harvard Magazine. Inside is an article recounting the history of the University's Semitic Museum which, after forty years of its dispersion, was at that moment to "rise again." Now, a scarce decade later, the museum's...
During World War II the U.S. military took over several Harvard buildings, including the Semitic Museum. Thus began the museum's forty-year exile. Gradually, its collections were distributed here, there and everywhere: to a warehouse, to a Wellesley College professor's home, to other Harvard facilities, to a crawl...
Limbaugh is ubiquitous at the grass roots in a way that Stern isn't and can never be. Here their careers really are apples and oranges -- although unquestionably a great big apple and a smaller orange. Limbaugh's radio show is carried on 628 stations, all but a few AM...
Despite a relatively crime-free head of the Charles weekend, there was one unusual episode and several scattered arrests, local police said yesterday.