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...showed last year, when the team christened Leone’s first season in Cambridge with a big-time turnaround—Harvard won 10 games and made itself known as a force not to be overlooked in the Ancient Eight...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CUNNING COMMENTARY: Next Crop of Crimson Leadership Set to Go | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...Ormindo” has a positively Baroque plot, given its impossibly intricate mixture of lovers, rulers, and clairvoyants. It involves two Moroccan princes—Ormindo and Amida—who are in love with the same beautiful woman, Erisbe (who is, of course, unavailable, having married an ancient, wealthy and powerful monarch). The young queen and her two suitors are backed by a cast that includes three Egyptian fortune-tellers, a page, a lady-in-waiting, and a king, all of whom sing lengthy solo arias and pose and mime animatedly. This is meant to be very much...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: L’Ormindo Laughs and Romances | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...made no deeper impact on his patients' illnesses, Chopra found himself thinking more and more about the heritage of traditional healing he had left behind with his move to America. In 1985, after hearing a lecture by Transcendental Meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Chopra became interested in Ayurveda, an ancient Indian science of healthy living based on an understanding that the physical body has its roots in the world of spirit. Convinced that it held secrets the modern world was in dire need of, Chopra turned his life around. He stopped the cigarettes and alcohol and plunged into a study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...over Cornell, who during the seniors’ time in Cambridge has evolved into a perennial league rival, the Crimson sat in the driver’s seat entering the final weekend of Ivy play in March: win out, and it would retain its sole grip on the Ancient Eight crown. But a loss in a lackluster effort at Yale the following weekend forced a three-game playoff atop the league standings, eventually sending the Big Red to the NCAA tournament and Harvard home...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Senior Citizens | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...road to an Ancient Eight title repeat may now be clearer, but it still isn’t any easier. With its win last Saturday against Columbia and Brown’s loss to Yale, No. 19 Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) now sits in a three-way tie with Brown and Penn (5-3, 4-1) atop the Ivy League.But by no means is anything guaranteed, as the Crimson travels to Philadelphia this Saturday to take on its rival league leader. Despite being on a six-game winning streak during which it has outscored its opponents...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Top of the League | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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