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...since I was first cognizant of them, initially viewing them as an opportunity to learn about other countries and now as an affirmation of my faith in internationalism. In this belief, I am not blinded by my own idealism. The Games are not perfect. Since their original incarnation in Ancient Greece, there have been athletes who cheated for the sake of a token or who exploited their superstar status. There will always be those who resort to such methods, and it does not take technology or modernity. The Games continue to occur because the people devoted to the ideals...
...this isn't the no-name lineup for the newest Blair Witch Project. They're the cast of Mel Gibson's new feature, Apocalypto, an action epic about the ancient Mayas currently filming in southern Mexico...
...point on the continent that had the same latitude and—accordingly—a similar climate. However, in vertically-oriented continents such as Africa and the Americas, where longitude remains relatively constant but latitude varies dramatically, Diamond said, these sorts of exchanges are more difficult. For instance, ancient people in Mexico invented the wheel, and their contemporaries in the Andes had domesticated llamas, but a lack of exchange between these two locations prevented the Americas from developing an animal-powered cart, Diamond said. Diamond, observing that there were few undergraduates in the audience, quipped during a question...
...title, the Crimson (12-15, 8-6 Ivy) looked to scratch one name from that list. However, Harvard fell short against Dartmouth (21-6,12-2), losing 76-55. Poor play from the Crimson was not enough to challenge a motivated Big Green, which captured a portion of the Ancient Eight crown for the second straight year. “It should have been a game where we were loose,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We have struggled with that all year.” The Crimson struggled to 34 percent shooting from...
...past generations, and penetrated with humility. It is thus that the University in our day serves Christ and the Church.” The University’s purpose, in other words, was no longer anchored strictly to theology. But while compulsory chapel attendance may have already become ancient history, Harvard wasn’t abandoning God just yet. In fact, one could regard the ostensible secularization of the late 19th century as more an affirmation of Christianity than an unequivocal rejection of religion. As George M. Marsden writes in “The Soul of the American University...