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...Sophomore point guard Jenn Monti, likely the most exciting player on the team to watch and a Second Team All-Ivy selection, ably served as floor general for the Crimson, handing out dazzling assist after dazzling assist. She finished the year tied for 15th in the country in dishes with 6.1 per game. In a home matchup with Yale, Monti set the Harvard single-game assist record with...
Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting The Garden of Delights is one of the wildest pictures in Western art, but it may have met its match for feverish description in this book's hallucinogenic meditation on it. With cinematic fluency, Williams slips in and out of the painting, riffing on everything from her Mormon upbringing to the survival of the monarch butterfly. Strange and endlessly fascinating, her reflections on Bosch's images of Heaven, Hell and Earth take on the burning urgency of a dream. "Can a painting be a prayer?" she asks. Her answer is yes, prayer. Incantation...
...ultimate condition, allowing us to sort through the buzz of short-term problems that distract attention from the fundamental change now taking place. Yes, the West mastered the technology that China first discovered. Yet much more important, according to Needham, was that China lost its edge in the 15th century by suppressing entrepreneurs whose power posed a threat to the Emperor. The empire was made safe from within, but at the price of atrophy in the face of the Western challenge. This condition continued under Mao Zedong...
...anyone catch the Mets' season last year? Recall the disgruntled outfielders who played cards during pivotal playoff games, the insane manager who returned to the dugout in a Groucho Marx disguise after being ejected from the game, the grand slam single in the 15th inning in the NLCS, and New York's newfound love affair with John Rocker. These events transpired in roughly two months of the Amazins' 1999 Wild Card season. Now that's entertainment...
...Vikings didn't just pillage and run; sometimes they came to stay. Dublin became a Viking town; so did Lincoln and York, along with much of the surrounding territory in northern and eastern England. In Scotland, Vikings maintained their language and political links to their homeland well into the 15th century. Says Batey: "The northern regions of Scotland, especially, were essentially a Scandinavian colony up until then." Vikings also created the duchy of Normandy, in what later became France, as well as a dynasty that ruled Kiev, in Ukraine...