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...through the University. Plus, according to a recent re-run of old revelations, the Fly Club's use of a strip of university land as part of its "members' only" garden.) Henceforth, thanks largely to the watch-and-ward Committee, Harvard College will have no formal relationship with its ancient Final Clubs...
...strange mixture of participants underscored the unusual cross-cultural impact of Maimonides, who is also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, "the Rambam" (an acronym) and the "second Moses." Religious sage, philosopher, community leader and physician, the Rambam was also culturally complex--a Jew steeped in ancient Greek philosophy who spent his life among Muslims and influenced Christian Europe. As Soviet Scholar Vitali Naumkin told the Paris meeting, "Maimonides is perhaps the only philosopher in the Middle Ages, perhaps even now, who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western...
...sequence will include courses on Near Eastern and Far Eastern art and architecture, ancient and medieval architecture, and Renaissance and modern architecture, said Department Chairman Neil Levine...
...20th century has spawned some notions about comets that seem even more fantastic than the ancient myths. British Astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe have suggested that over hundreds of millions of years, primitive biological entities, perhaps even cells, developed within some comets. These may have been delivered to the earth as the first form of terrestrial life by a comet that impacted billions of years ago. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA molecule's structure, and Organic Chemist Leslie Orgel have proposed a less fanciful theory: Comets brought with them the chemical precursors of life, in the form...
This monumental survey deserves to be published to the strains of the triumphal march from Aida. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michalowski (Abrams; 600 pages; $125) embraces some 5,000 years and 30-odd dynasties. Cheops, Tutankhamen, eleven Ramseses, a dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...