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...demand that he "talk" because he's heard the freshman is Australian and has an interesting accent. It starts on day one--"R" day they call it at the Point--when the new cadets come in at 8 a.m. and by 5 p.m. are shorn, supplied and marching in military formation...
...covered the citizens of Pompeii. The tomb may have been similarly looted - it must have been an irresistible target. For the Emperor was no ordinary man; he planned no small plans. (Once, when a storm foiled a projected trip to Mount Xiang, he took revenge by ordering the mountain shorn of all its trees, and then painted red.) Once Shihuangdi had unified China's warring factions, he had his laborers connect many separated ramparts against the northern nomads to form the Great Wall...
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When some American Indian activists occupied a building at Fort Robinson and threatened to burn it down, Moran sentenced them to five days in the county jail. Some whites denounced him for being a "bit soft on our Indian brethren," But in Moran's view, "shorn of emotionalism, what happened is nothing more than a slightly aggravated case of trespass...
...native Paris, with 142 paintings, drawings and pastels, and a catalogue by one of Europe's most distinguished art historians, Pierre Rosenberg. Two American institutions took part in the production, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; this month the Chardin exhibition-shorn, alas, to 90 works-opened in Cleveland, before moving to Boston in the fall. It is a real event: the kind of show, rare today, that quietly assigns the Tuts and Pompeiis to the perspective of show-biz trivia in which they belong...