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Vasella keeps a keen eye on his cherished drug business from an elegant second-floor office in the old Sandoz headquarters. On a counter behind his black leather chair are a pair of ancient Egyptian vases, a sword from the Han dynasty and a large blue-green bust of Buddha from the Tang dynasty. An avid collector of Oriental art, he recently bought a 13th century Tibetan statue of Buddha made of gilded bronze, which he keeps at his home in Zug. "I talk to him sometimes," says Vasella, "and I say, 'You know, I like you better than Jesus...
...Quakers titles.But with Princeton still stuck in a rut created during the disastrous Joe Scott tenure and Penn having graduated its three best players from a year ago—including two-time Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber and big-time forward Mark Zoller—the Ancient Eight’s long-suffering underlings are all gunning for the top spot.Cornell, the favorite in the preseason media poll; Yale, a dominant home team; and a very deep and experienced Columbia squad all have legitimate title aspirations. Brown and Dartmouth hope to hang around, and even Harvard, likely still...
...needed some heroics last season to set it on its run to the championship. Entering its Ivy League opener at Dartmouth, the Crimson, with a 2-11 non-conference mark, faced the prospect of another disappointing year. The game also brought two more immediate challenges: the two-time defending Ancient Eight champion Big Green, and a stomach bug plaguing its star point guard. But Hallion shook off her illness in Hanover to record a career-high 22 points, including 18 after the break, to will Harvard to a 71-68 victory that started its stunning Ivy League run. After...
...blue and black abstraction behind a case containing Mayan cylinder vases and Greek oil flasks. Ackley cites two original sites of inquiry: his desire to look at a Goya drawing next to a Hokusai print and his desire to consider Maya drawings on ceramic vessels next to more familiar ancient Greek drawings. Fittingly, they are also two of the most successful pairings. The bold red Mayan ‘drawing’ offsets the Grecian slighter white figure technique. It is often the similarities in works across time and place that are most intriguing. A case in the second gallery...
...terrorism and conflicts ranging from the Iranian Revolution to the Iraq war. But accounts like Andelman’s lead one to wonder how examining the past can help us to move forward in the future. While Bernard Lewis’s celebrated account of the fall of ancient Islamic civilization, “What Went Wrong?,” traced the roots of tension in the Middle East to the anti-modern tendencies of Islam, it begged the question: What do we do now? “A Shattered Peace” leads the reader to ask the same...