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...some 30 Italian archaeologists are digging through a cross section of history from the Bronze Age to medieval times. Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact. And smack on top of that are the remnants of a tower dating from the 13th century era of the Ghibellines. With 86,000 sq. ft. of past at his feet, archaeologist Giuliano De Marinis, director of the dig, is exultant: "Piazza della Signoria is a unique occasion for reading the story of Florence. It's the first time that anyone has dug a Roman...
This weekend may have had a Friday the 13th, but for the Columbia and Cornell men's basketball teams, it was more like a Nightmare at Briggs Cage...
Against Columbia (4-9, 0-2) on Friday the 13th, a solid Harvard defense jinxed the Lions into playing poorly. Led by Smith's 10 first-half points and sparked by Columbia's turnovers, the Crimson went on a 16-2 run in the last four minutes of the half to take a 12-point lead...
When the saber-toothed chieftains of American capitalism wanted models of political or cultural patronage, it was to Lorenzo de' Medici, prototype of city bosses, that they turned. Siena seemed less Promethean, less inventive. Its great moment in painting, by common consent, had come in the late 13th and 14th centuries, with the work of Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers. Then social and economic catastrophe struck in 1348, when the Black Death wiped out more than half its population. While it is true that Sienese painting and sculpture for the next 150 years did not have the extraordinary...
What makes this all the more striking is that no one expected a distinguished season for Notre Dame this year. Playing one of the toughest schedules in the NCAA and lacking the services of 1987 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown, who graduated, the Irish were ranked 13th in pre-season projections. Eleven of the 22 first-stringers were starting for the first time. To compensate for the lack of experience, Holtz relentlessly drilled his specialty squads and relied on raw speed. In the season opener, the Irish edged out tenth-ranked University of Michigan 19-17 on the strength...