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...early as the 6th century, in the sub-Sahara, Moorish merchants routinely traded salt ounce for ounce for gold. In Abyssinia, slabs of rock salt, called 'amôlés, became coin of the realm. Each one was about ten inches long and two inches thick. Cakes of salt were also used as money in other areas of central Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: History According to Salt | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Love has its own secrets, but the "water" sub-plot of this forked work has a complexity too. In fact, it gives Cheever an ideal playground for assembling one of his patented concatenations of weird events. A down and out barber shoots his dog in full sight of his neighbors, two women wrestle in a supermarket, a baby is mistakenly abandoned. Also, Cheever cannot was quite to eloquent nor so humorous about the country side as he can about sex. But he succeeds in constructing his labyrinth of characters and circumstances more significantly and puts forth a well-crafted threnody...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Paradise Questioned | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

MacCaffrey said he sees no need for changes in the department's treatment of two of its chronic problems--faculty members in the same specialty taking leaves of absence at the same time, stripping a sub-area of the department of many of its course offerings, and the shortage of tenured women professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Womack, Maier Will Assume Top History Department Posts | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

Older women. A sub-division of the trend-setters, they smoke British cigarettes and seduce proctors. They are not older in years, merely more weary of the world and more prone to peasant skirts, husky laughs, and hoop earrings. They never join the trend-setters for mid-Yard tanning sessions, and they call their prep school boy friends "lovers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...Corporation's formal reform proposal contains a postscript noting that under the new guidelines, the Citibank loan would probably not be considered humanitarian. It should be emphasized that a sub-committee of the ACSR and not the Corporation reached this conclusion was directly contradicted by Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45 both in his much publicized letter to the ACSR where he claimed the Citibank loan served a "worthy purpose," and in a recent Harvard Crimsoninterview where he invoked the opinion of "some" Blacks to justify the loan. If the Corporation dares to mention the Citibank loan in the same breath...

Author: By Patrick Flaherty, | Title: Divestiture: The Corporation Breaks Its Promise | 3/3/1982 | See Source »

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