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...anthropologist Laura Betzig, surveying these early civilizations, has rendered the Darwinian opinion that politics has often been "little more than reproductive competition"--men using power to better spread their genes. The Aztec King Nezahualpilli had more than 100 children, as did Ramses II of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Politics Made Me Do It | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Onlookers in Harvard Square were treated to rare sights and sounds last night when a man in full Aztec warrior regalia, accompanied by an Aztec female dancer and another woman holding incense, led a procession of people wearing skeleton masks toward Andover Chapel at the Divinity School...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parade Celebrates Day of the Dead | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...festival is an amalgam of an ancient Aztec ceremony celebrating the death of emperors, and All Saints' Day, which was brought to the Americas with the Spanish conquistadors...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parade Celebrates Day of the Dead | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...Aztec dancer Raul Ruiz, a third-year student at the Medical School, defined the concept behind the festivities in more mystical terms, going back to the idea that the festival blurs the line between life and death...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parade Celebrates Day of the Dead | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

Arriving at the Andover Chapel, Aztec dancing made way to the dancing of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, who performed before an audience of 50. The group performed two dances, "Colas," about a man who loves a woman and complains about how badly she treats him, and "La Bruja," a dance depicting witches practicing their...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parade Celebrates Day of the Dead | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

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