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...attempt to understand the descendants of settlers who were themselves the despised and disenfranchised people of the veld. American Journalist Barbara Villet, whose photographer husband grew up in a suburb of Cape Town, starts her journey in modern South Africa, then begins "trekking away from time" back to the 17th century, when a group of Dutch Calvinists sets out for Cape Town. The tiny white minority see themselves as a new chosen people, driven by religious fervor and economic distress. By the 19th century their descendants have become as rooted, as various and as melodramatic as the land. Villet brings...
...lifts the 20th-ranked Crimson (11-2-2) into the thick of contention for a berth in the 16-team NCAA National Championship tournament. Springfield (11-5) was rated 17th in the most recent NCAA poll, released last Thursday...
When the 20th-ranked Harvard field hockey team visits 17th-ranked Springfield tonight, one of the two squads will drop from contention for a berth in the NCAA national championship tournament Just what will happen to the winner is far less clear...
...Crimson travels to Spring field Tuesday night, with both teams needing a victory to stay in the Journey picture. The Wildcats placed 17th in last week's poll though it must be noted that the Spring field coach has one of seven votes used to compile the rankings...
...Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Art and one of the nation's preeminent Rembrandt scholars, said he had "no reason to doubt that the materials with which the two paintings were made went available to a 17th-century artist...