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...idea that much of this is fantasy is pretty persuasive too. There are no Incan records--the Incas had no written language--but the Spaniards, who conquered so much of South America, kept plenty. Fifteen years ago, John Howland Rowe, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was studying the archives left by the Spaniards at Cuzco and came across a 16th century lawsuit filed by descendants of Pachacuti seeking the return of royal family lands, including a retreat called Picchu. Over the years, other researchers have dug deeper into the mystery, none deeper than Burger, a onetime student...
...much as I loved living in Paris, the Seine's heady cocktail of diesel oil and stagnant water was not enough to make me tie the knot. Eventually I moved on, leaving my boat for other affairs: a dalliance with a house in Berkeley, a fling with a high-rise in Hong Kong. But I still look back on my Parisian home with wistfulness and a hint of self-satisfaction. At any gathering of Iyer's global souls, a houseboat in Paris trumps a penthouse in Manhattan every time...
...June 20, 1960, when Feller was General Counsel for the United Steelworkers of America. “He successfully defended the role of labor arbitration,” said colleague Sanford H. Kadish, who is a former dean of Boalt Hall, the law school at the University of California, Berkeley...
Feller joined the faculty of Boalt Hall in 1967 and remained there, as a professor emeritus, until his death. In 1987, he received the prestigious Berkeley Citation for “extraordinary achievement in his field” and “outstanding service to the Berkeley campus...
...Looking at it from an aerial map, obviously this is a corner piece that Harvard would like to have,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association...