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...honors as the Ivy League Player of the Week. But Fucito’s outburst did not come out of nowhere. As captain Charles Altchek noted earlier in the season, his sophomore teammate is a “proven entity in the league.” Fucito was the Ancient Eight’s Rookie of the Year in 2004 and was slated from the start to play an important role in this season’s march toward the ever-elusive Ivy title. With his effort this past week, Fucito has vaulted himself into the discussion for Ivy League...
...Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such religious samplings required no sustained commitment on my part - no introspective exertion or self-flagellation. Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many ways - and not necessarily the best...
...highlighting the amount of money now "available" to faith-based organizations because of particular administrative reforms announced six months earlier. It was one of those wonderful Washington assertions that is simultaneously accurate and deceptive and just confusing enough to defy opposition. On the one hand, we had eliminated some ancient and patently absurd regulations, many of them promulgated under seemingly faith-phobic Democratic Administrations, that discriminated against faith-based groups simply because they might have a religious-sounding name. The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, for instance, was once denied the chance to apply for a federal grant even though...
...trips with the summer school program. We got to learn about the historical background, the cultural background.” But Sergio Pardo ’09 said he thought students might not take advantage of research opportunities in Greece. “As a History concentrator focusing on Ancient Mediterranean History, I find [the Greece office opening] interesting. For the rest of Harvard, I don’t think it would be that interesting because [Greece] doesn’t seem to be that prominent in modern history. It’s a minor country...
...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