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Though Wetzel and Dhaka remained out of action, Harvard was able to compete against a strong Aztec (10-5) squad...
Other Pentagon units also field secret agents. Code Names, a new book written by defense analyst William Arkin, identifies more than 100 secret units, intelligence programs and communications networks that the Pentagon has set up to fight terrorists. Many have exotic designations like Aztec Silence and Island Sun. "When you put together all these code names, it shows there's something going on out there and it's complex," says Arkin...
...center of almost all the festivities is an altar filled with gifts to the deceased. The gifts’ variety offers a reflection of the University’s contemporary cultural melting pot, with Aztec and Christian symbols sitting side by side...
There were some interesting results. Pictures of deceased relatives and friends filled each of the colorfully decorated tables, along with various religious icons, including images of the Blessed Mother of Christianity, Aztec prayer offerings and flowers, and a large wooden dreidel...
...those two were not unsettling enough, later there is the figure of the fertility god Xipe Totec, circa 1500. Known to the Aztecs as "our flayed lord," he wears a pebbly garment that represents flayed human skin with pustules of fat clinging to it. The idea behind this image was actually positive. Priests who personified Xipe Totec in fertility rituals wore the skins of sacrificial victims for several days. Then, as the skins dried and came apart, the priests' healthy bodies emerged, symbolizing the fundamental Aztec notion of life growing out of death. But still...