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PHILADELPHIA--After pouncing on the Tiger wrestling team Friday night at Princeton, the No. 27 Harvard wrestling team (5-4) was unable to overtake the 15th-ranked Quakers (7-0-2) in Saturday's battle at the Palestra...
...mystery: Aztecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Toltecs, Olmecs. But of all the great pre-Columbian metropolises that dot the region, arguably the most magnificent of all belonged to a people who remain nameless. The Aztecs, who took over the area some 25 miles north of modern Mexico City in the 15th century, were convinced it was built by supernatural beings. Their name for the city, which we still use: Teotihuacan, or Place of the Gods...
...want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness?" But now they broke into what Jack Miles, in his book God: A Biography, calls "one of the great, exultant victory songs in all literature," the Song of the Sea, in the 15th chapter of Exodus. An ancient rabbinical commentary elaborated, "Even the sucklings dropped their mothers' breasts to join in singing, yea, even the embryos in the womb joined the melody, and the angels' voice swelled the song...
Columbia, 15th on the list, is the only Ivy League school to rank higher than Harvard. Counter said Columbia's setting in New York City is a possible reason for its high ranking...
...heels in third, Samuel finished fifth, Waters claimed sixth and Kurmakov came in eight. Not only did Harvard claim most of the top eight, but it also swam for the key top 16 points. Junior Jan Sibbersen was 10th, Rosen 11th, junior Brian Swinteck 14th, sophomore Chris Park 15th and sophomore Dan Barnes 16th to round out the places...