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...Ancient Eight teams are a combined 19-11 as hosts this season. Harvard and Princeton, unsurprisingly, lead the way with 3-0 marks. Yale and Cornell also boast three home wins, against only one loss apiece. Dartmouth is the only squad with a losing record, in fact winless at Memorial Field in four games. Penn is second worst at 2-2, although one of its losses was against crosstown rival Villanova, whose partisans likely made up half of the attending crowd...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Home Is Where The Football Field Is | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...lunch, they take small parties around South Wales' many historic sites by car, van or foot. The duo met as archaeology college students, and aim to prove there's "more to Wales than leeks, hats and choirs," says Baker. They took me on a typical trip that led from ancient tombs like Carreg Samson near Fishguard to medieval Dryslwyn Castle in Camarthenshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wales Tales | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...shouldn't stop at those days sacred to Catholics and other Christians. The Greeks, Romans and ancient Northern tribes so revered their gods that they named every day of the week after them (Sunday for the sun god, Monday for the moon god, Tuesday for the Nordic god Tyr, Wednesday for the Germanic god Wodin, Thursday for Thor or (the equivalent of Jupiter), Friday for the German goddess Friga (Venus) and Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Five of the first six months of the year honored various gods (Janus, Mars, Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Holideen! | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...Crimson took game three, before falling in four. At Penn (7-13, 4-5), Harvard battled to force game five, before the decisive game went to the Quakers. With the losses, the Crimson falls to seventh place in the Ivy League and becomes mathematically eliminated from Ancient Eight title contention.With just four games remaining, Harvard is back in action next weekend at the Malkin Athletic Center to take on first-place Cornell and last-place Columbia. PENN 3, HARVARD 2Despite 20 kills from senior Katie Turley-Molony and a massive Crimson comeback, Penn held on to take the match...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Losses End Bid for .500 Record in Ivies | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Child in Iran's Cultural Divide | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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