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...nation's gratitude for fecundity. In France, a quartet of children might net their mother a bronze award, six or seven could snare her a silver, but only a respectable married mother of eight or more is deemed worthy of gold. Each year, honors are bestowed on several thousand large families. If the concept seems anachronistic, that's because it is. There's a revolution sweeping through Europe, one more radical than any baby boomer on hallucinogenics could have dreamt up. The ideal of family life celebrated at the Elysées Palace and in town halls across France...
...sure, is not alone in its plodding ways. The Core Standing Committee evidently missed their cue to act on last spring’s announcement of new Humanities divisional courses. As students thumbed through the nearly thousand-page Courses of Instruction, many were delighted to find classes such as Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” and Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” but they were left without guidance as to what general education requirement these general education courses would fulfill. The Core Committee’s failure...
...freshman girl.” 9.)“Your class is the most diverse in Harvard’s history! They just let you in because you’ll look good on the admissions brochure.” 10) “The thousand bucks I’m getting to help you is doing wonders for my cocaine habit.” 11) “You don’t need to do the reading for your Core class. You just need to sex up the loneliest...
...second half, when Witt faked the handoff to Dawson and found an open Matt Farbotko in the endzone.Farbotko was just one set of hands that exploited a weak Crusader secondary.The offensive attack was aided by newcomer Matt Luft and senior Corey Mazza, fellow graduates of California’s Thousand Oaks High School. Luft, a 6’5 freshman receiver, posted three catches for 62 yards, while the 6’4 Mazza, finally looking healthy after a year lost to injury, posted 4 catches for 68 yards.“Harvard’s personnel is very good...
...been held by another Italian power player, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for overseeing more than a thousand dioceses in the developing world might best be chosen from the developing world...