Word: vii
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is essentially a wonderful academic game," Guthrie said, adding, "It has absolutely no effect at all." She said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Executive Order 11246 already forbid federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, religion...
...Hare, but he does possess a warm and beautiful voice. His main function is to fight Richard to the death. So we have Moriarty, Dartmouth '63, pitted against O'Hare, Harvard '74. After too brief a bit of swordplay, Harvard wins and will ascend the throne as Henry VII...
Even closer to history, and almost as footnoteworthy, is Robert Perrin's Jewels (Stein & Day; 269 pages; $9.95), a recreation of one of the century's greatest unsolved heists. To the vast displeasure of King Edward VII, to whom they belonged, the so-called Irish Crown Jewels vanished in 1907 from a safe in Dublin Castle, never to be recovered. The crowning insult was that the investigation threatened to embrangle Edward's brother-in-law, the playboy Duke of Argyll, in a homosexual scandal. As a result, the friends of Edward VII "perpetrated a cover-up that...