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...fraught time in Northern Ireland. Republicans hold events to commemorate the anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 - an anti-British rebellion in Dublin that was violently suppressed by British troops - while the Orange Order holds marches across the province to mark the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic James II in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the "marching season" has passed off relatively peacefully in recent years, it's feared the actions of an emboldened dissident movement could once again ignite these historical rivalries. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...Commission voted to designate the structure as a historical landmark according to the recommendations of a report commissioned 16 months ago. But William B. King, the chair of the commission, said that they did not fully adopt all of the report’s findings—which include strict bans on any changes to the outside facade of the building—because they were too “prescriptive and restrictive...
...second consecutive year—and the ninth time in the past 15 years—a team of three Harvard undergraduates won the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The winning team members were Arnav Tripathy ’11, Iurie Boreico ’11, and Zachary R. Abel ’10, each of whom received a $1,000 award for their victory in the team competition. The six-hour, 12-question exam was administered by the Mathematical Association of America in the first week of December. A total of 3,627 students from 545 colleges...
...fifth studio recording, takes these inclinations to an entirely new level. An hour-long saga of compelling fury that demands to be listened to in its entirety, it follows the story of a young woman named Margaret as she falls in love with a shapeshifting faun named William whom she meets in the forest. In four acts, an evil queen and a villainous rake try to destroy the couple, but these hazards only succeed in ending their lives, not their love. Beginning with a slow organ crescendo that leads into Meloy’s somber introduction in the first variation...
...Christ of Latter-Day Saints was shaken by the exposure of forged documents related to its founding. The counterfeiter responsible for the fakes was a disgruntled Mormon missionary ... He created and sold titillating documents - including one that purported to show that LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced magic. In [Mark William] Hoffman's most notorious forgery, he presented Smith as a man visited not by an angel but by a giant white salamander...