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...being the season of the Shah's 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian empire. Just months before, the world's royals and Presidents had flocked to Persepolis - the stone city in the desert built by King Darius and sacked by Alexander the Great - to watch costume parades of ancient Persian soldiers, down Château Lafite-Rothschild 1945 and sleep on Porthault linen in tents designed in Paris. In 1971, even a 5-year-old can feel the aggressive glamour of the Shah's regime. Nearly every shop and office has a picture of the hawk-faced Shah...
...less than 24 hours after falling two games behind the Big Red in the Ancient Eight standings, the Crimson (18-6, 7-3 Ivy) caught fire in Saturday night’s matchup, exploding to a 77-57 victory over Columbia (9-15, 3-7) at Lavietes Pavilion behind 50-percent shooting from the floor and a career-high 23 points from sophomore point guard Oliver McNally...
...show in Ithaca, proving why six of its grapplers are ranked in the top 20 nationally. Troy Nickerson, Mike Grey, Justin Kerber, Mack Lewnes, and Cam Simaz all won by fall against their Crimson counterparts, securing Cornell’s (8-4-1, 4-0) 31st Ancient Eight crown, the squad’s eighth straight. Even though the Big Red claimed its 43rd-consecutive league dual match, by the end of the day, the hosts were not the only ones boasting a streak...
...fingers were bent into claws, the tips pressed against the palms of his hands. On the recommendation of his doctors, he moved from Paris to the dry climate of Provence, where, like so many other artists, he found a personal paradise, a garden tended by ghosts of the ancient Mediterranean. His was a farmstead in Cagnes-sur-Mer, not far from Nice. Though in constant pain, Renoir entered the most productive period of his career, producing hundreds of canvases, many of them painted while he could barely grip a brush...
...Theisohn wonders what the future will hold for Hegemann. Plagiarism accusations aside, he calls her book a "decent accomplishment for a 17-year-old." Weber-Wulff, too, sees reasons to be optimistic: "I suppose we should be happy that someone is actually using that ancient communication method, writing...