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...Lamont Library Café, the Harvard College Women’s Center, the Student Organization Center at Hilles, and the soon-to-open Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. “This has been a period, while your children have been here, of great motion for an ancient institution,” Gross said. —Samuel P. Jacobs contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...over Columbia.During the dark days of the Crimson’s dismal nonconference schedule (Harvard went 2-11 against non-Ivy opponents), a league title seemed perhaps a season away. But Harvard’s young talent matured and gained momentum as it plowed through Ancient Eight competition—the team has now won eleven straight.The Crimson closes out its regular season tomorrow night at Lavietes Pavilion versus Dartmouth. The team will then await the unveiling of the NCAA brackets, which contain the squad’s first-round location and opponent, on March 12. Harvard?...
...Like all language or thought police, the nigger-nazis are humorless snobs who dream of a world without toilets. They are also caught in the ancient and reductionist view that the black community is little more than a motley crew of victims. Whenever someone uses nigger, they break out into breathless stories of lynchings, lunch counters and police dogs. They then assert that we nigger-users are doing little more than confirming and perpetuating our own ignorance and participating in a racist conspiracy...
That won't happen with The Jesus Family Tomb by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, a sidecar to Jacobovici's Cameron-produced Discovery Channel documentary. Jacobovici claims that 10 bone boxes from an ancient Jerusalem-area crypt bear such a suggestive combination of names (JESUS SON OF JOSEPH, MARY, JOSE) that it must be the holy family's tomb. His statistician has set the odds at 600 to 1 in favor. He thinks one inscription, MARIAMENE E MARA, denotes Mary Magdalene, and another, JUDAH SON OF JESUS, her son by the Saviour...
...Greece's northern coast called Thermopylae--the name means "the hot gates." In August of 480 B.C., a force of about 7,000 Greek soldiers assembled there, including 300 Spartans under the leadership of their king, Leonidas. The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces. They were there to meet an army of more than 250,000 Persians under the command of King Xerxes...