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...Grr…” as a whole sorely lacks: dynamism. By contrast, “Oklahoma” is sunny and even joyous, with chiming arpeggios helping to create a genuinely enjoyable, if minor, diversion. “Oklahoma” leads into “The Ancient Commonsense of Things,” where a pretty melody complements a theme, as stated in the title, that is the album’s one departure from the typical concerns of the genre. Prettiest of all is “True and False,” where guest vocalist...
...Harvard women’s basketball team was one of three co-champions of the Ivy League, but missed out on postseason tournament play when it fell to Dartmouth in a league playoff. Fast forward a year later, and the Crimson has fallen short of its third straight Ancient Eight crown after a crushing 64-51 loss to the Big Green last Tuesday in Hanover...
...craggy rocks in an English field, Stonehenge's ability to capture the imagination is impressive. The ancient monument - composed of massive stones arranged into concentric circles by unknown builders - is referenced almost as far back the Norman Conquest, when an English historian remarked in 1130 A.D. that "no one can conceive how such great stones have been so raised aloft, or why they were built here." That certainly hasn't kept many from trying. It seems like everyone has a theory for why the ruins were constructed. Some are more plausible than others...
...evidently, there is something in NATO for France. What about the other Europeans, old and new? The world has been totally transformed since 1949, but the ancient cliché about NATO, authored by its first secretary-general, Lord Ismay, still works. NATO, Ismay said, had three functions: keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down...
...Elior claims says these ancient historians, namely Philo and Pliny the Elder, either borrowed from each other or retailed second-hand stories as fact. "Pliny the Elder describes the Essenes as 'choosing the company of date palms' beside the Dead Sea. We know Pliny was a great reader, but he probably never visited Israel," she says...