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James O. Freedman ’57, former President of Dartmouth College and a legal scholar, died Tuesday at his Cambridge, Mass. home. He was 70. The cause of death was non-Hodgkins Lymphoma—a form of cancer—according to a press release from Dartmouth College. Freedman’s longtime friend David Halberstam ’55, an author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, told The Crimson yesterday that Freedman was a “great humanist” and “one of the most courageous men I have ever...
...doom and zoom sound fun, but the ancient Maya are also called the Greeks of the New World--they invented the concept of zero, built astonishing cities and used a more complex calendar than ours. Gibson insists the glory gets its close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project and a consultant for Apocalypto: "This is by far the best treatment--the first treatment really--of the Maya any film has ever done. I'm amazed at the detail Mel's shooting...
...received arrived with no subject or address, just the word “bastard.”Another one said “I hope you die soon,” on the first day and “are you still alive?” on the next.A scholar of ancient Hindu texts who has spent six years in Kathmandu, Nepal, Witzel was one of three scholars asked by the Board to examine the edits, as part of the review. In January, he flew to Sacramento for a six-hour closed discussion on the proposed changes.Last Wednesday, the Board...
...Trade Pessimism for Peace "An Island on the Edge" [Feb. 20] reported that Sri Lanka is drifting back into civil war between the Sinhalese government and the Tamil Tigers after a four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese...
...Midway through senior year, one cannot help but hear about everyone else’s projected future “good news” and plans. When one hears that Senior Suzy is working for that investment bank next year, Ambitious Abe is going to be a Cambridge scholar, and that Loving Lucy and Enamored Eric are engaged, the last piece of news catches most off-guard: it is the least expected, after all. Getting engaged while in college is not necessarily wrong, but it is just atypical, and thus those who make this decision become a source of scruitiny...