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...more on the menu: men’s and women’s hockey open their seasons tonight, men’s and women’s soccer are trying to keep their title hopes alive at Columbia, and field hockey can earn a share of the Ancient Eight crown with a win in the Big Apple (and a Princeton loss) this evening...
...last three meetings between Harvard (5-2, 4-0 Ivy) and Columbia (1-6, 0-4). All signs indicate that the trend will continue tomorrow, when the Crimson takes on the Lions at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in a must-win tuneup for the last two weeks of the Ancient Eight schedule, which concludes with The Game...
...years. You can stop at shops featuring handicrafts, antiques and trendy clothes along the hutong, or lane, leading up to Yinding Bridge, before enjoying some authentic Vietnamese cuisine at Nuage, tel: (86-10) 6401 9581. This restaurant club has a stunning view of the lake area and the nearby ancient Drum Tower, which was built in 1420 and used to signal the time during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. For after-dinner cocktails, the Alpha Omega Club, tel: (86-10) 6612 9898 is on the west bank of Shichahai and within walking distance of Nuage. A pop cover band...
...exchanges with Egypt, the Levant (roughly present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Western Syria), the Ottoman and Persian empires and beyond, the collection is as eclectic as the history it charts: ceramics colored with Armenian dyes, embroidered silks and enameled glass, carpets and flowing tapestries, maps and ancient texts, elegant portraits of aristocrats and ambassadors, and daggers and scimitars laden with jewel-encrusted malice...
...with recent clashes between militants and government forces leaving more than 100 dead. The army had been sent in to contend with the supporters of a charismatic pro-Taliban cleric bent on establishing Islamic law in the former tourist enclave of Swat, better known for its Buddha sculptures and ancient monasteries than for any kind of religious fundamentalism...