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Harvard next faces Cornell on Saturday, again at Ohiri Field. The laxmen will be looking for their first Ivy League victory since 1984, having compiled an 0-6 record in last year's Ancient Eight competition. A defeat of the Big Red, however, would be no easy task for the Crimson, as Cornell has traditionally been an Ivy powerhouse...
Hanfmann and his colleagues also found evidence to verify the legend that Sardis, capital of the ancient Lydian kingdom under King Croesus, was seized by Greek veterans of the Trojan War in the 12th century...
...opened this winter in Palm Beach, Fla., Surmain, 65, recalls early triumphs and failures: "I wanted not a restaurant, but the restaurant. And to become famous, it had to have a short name without the word restaurant in it," he says, explaining that he finally chose Lutece from the ancient name for Paris, Lutetia. When he was making his | plans he heard of Soltner, then the chef at Chez Hansi, an Alsatian brasserie in Paris. Surmain went over, tasted Soltner's food and offered him a job with the promise of a partnership if they succeeded. "It sounded like...
...work of a mapmaker's imagination. Now it is the turn of writers to define its contours. The latest lyricist is Journalist Barry Lopez. "Much of the tundra," he notes, "appears to be treeless when, in many places, it is actually covered with trees--a thick matting of short, ancient willows and birches. You realize suddenly that you are wandering around on top of a forest." Icebergs the size of Cleveland drift through the dark waters, and sulfur butterflies mysteriously rise in the short, delirious summer. Mirages provide a weird history and geography: "A Swedish explorer had all but completed...
Last week's police riot quickly spread to five other hotels near the pyramids and many nightclubs and casinos on the broad avenue leading to the ancient monuments. At least two police stations were burned down. Renegade policemen also set free more than 300 of the 5,000 inmates at the Tura Prison south of Cairo. Among those liberated were scores of Islamic fundamentalists and other political prisoners who have opposed the Mubarak government. Other rebellious police, joined by gangs of civilian rioters, marched through the streets of suburban Maadi, where many diplomats and other foreign nationals live, burning cars...