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...multitude of ridiculous walking bets: "Peter Radford, in his book The Celebrated Captain Barclay, recounts some gloriously eccentric pedestrian contests. One was devised by 'an unnamed Duke' who wagered a thousand guineas that he could find a man to walk the ten miles from Piccadilly to Hounslow within three hours, taking three steps forward and one step back...
English 10a and 10b, the long-standing surveys of canonical works (and bane of many an aspiring Harvard litterateur), will cease to be taught within the next two years, according to two English professors familiar with the department’s discussions...
...Cornwell scientist will likely continue his own research within the museum’s collections as well, Lie said...
...family members of kidnappees, have continued to organize their ongoing balloon launches in an unusually jittery climate of inter-Korean relations, ignoring threats by the North and pressure by the South to stop the launches. On Nov. 12, North Korea threatened it would shut the inter-Korean border within weeks. South Korea's Unification Ministry said North Korea, which has tolerated similar propaganda leaflets being floated in past years, made it clear that it would not accept messages saying the Dear Leader's days are numbered. Now, Pyongyang is blaming Seoul for failing to keep its activists in check...
...authority. "This is the problem with having God as your leader," says Tsering Shakya, a professor of modern Tibetan history at the University of British Columbia. A referendum in the early 1990s on whether to give the Dalai Lama a mandate to follow his "Middle Path," seeking autonomy within China, resulted in such overwhelming support that some Tibetans doubted that it was a true expression of democracy. "People were upset by that," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama at home in Dharamsala...