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Workers stumbled upon human bones buried in the walls of Holden Chapel while working on renovations of the chapel's basement, college officials said yesterday. Harvard archaeologists will likely get the go-ahead to begin excavating the remains tomorrow...
...diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely moving, infinitely better than anything built above ground. It has the same kind of weird beauty as the basement of Antoni Gaudi's Palau Guell. Here and there the lights pick up sparkles of quartz and waste opal crumbs embedded in the stone. You could imagine it as a set for a Wagner opera; you half expect to see Alberich and his dwarfs...
...more into bargain basements and blue light specials, take the Red Line to Downtown Crossing and visit Filene's Basement, the mother of all bargain basements...
...mood for summer reading (and Widener Library's tower of books seems too daunting), you've come to the right city; Cambridge is the proud home to dozens of eclectic bookstores. For the best variety, try either Wordsworth or the Harvard Bookstore (used books in the basement for 50 percent off), although the specialty bookshops, like the Grolier Poetry bookstore on Pympton St., are also worth exploring...
Clothing store Pacific Sunwear, which will occupy the basement and first floor on the corner directly next door to Cambridge Savings Bank, will open in August, although an exact date has not been...