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...Harvard can focus solely on its next priority: Princeton, who sits just ahead of the Crimson atop the Ancient Eight standings...
...city is going black for good,” just like Earth. All hope is lost until an unlikely friendship is born between Lina, played by Saoirse Ronan, and Doon, played by Harry Treadaway. The pair discovers one of the city’s most ancient secrets and the key to their survival. Their adventure, fueled by Lina’s love for her baby sister and Doon’s desire to help the human race, takes place under, around, and through the city, unveiling the secret escape from the City of Ember. Ronan, who previously earned an Oscar...
...Frederick’s eager grasp proved too rough for the ancient carving. Alcibiades’ crucial member broke off in his hand. Frederick eyed it with interest for a moment, then cast it aside with a curse. It was too small...
...repeated listening to her second and final album, 1971’s “In My Own Time,” I felt at times as though Dalton’s voice were somehow not her own—as if it were instead the collected reincarnations of ancient, yellowed experiences, the culmination and distillation of a million cornmeal-flavored caterwauls that once blared out across an America long since passed away...
Like any other Holy Land story, it's a potent mix of religion and politics. As Burleigh writes, "Where historians seek clues to the puzzle of the ancient worlds, evangelical Christians seek proof of the literal interpretation of the Bible and nationalist Israelis want evidence of ancient Jewish inhabitation...