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...tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real-life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container for the original Ark), to a dusty bottom shelf in a museum in Harare, Zimbabwe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...writes). Ark leads had guided him to Egypt, Ethiopia and even New Guinea, until one day last fall his clues led him to a storeroom of the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe. There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings on its corners; and a raised relief of crossed reeds that Parfitt thinks reflects an Old Testament detail. "I felt a shiver go down my spine," he writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s basketball team looks to get back on a winning track this weekend when it hosts Princeton tonight and Penn tomorrow night at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson looks to regroup and snap a seven-game losing streak against two teams also in the bottom half of the Ivy standings and with less than stellar road records...

Author: By Meghan E. Marchetti, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Welcomes Penn, Princeton | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...rock bottom for the Harvard men’s hockey team just three weeks ago. A 4-2 loss at Brown on Feb. 1 capped off a 2-9-2 dive that started after a 3-3 tie at Yale on Nov. 28. “Some of those ties felt like losses,” senior forward Paul Dufault said. “We were playing pretty well, but in the third period we just lost it.”Although the Crimson (11-11-3, 9-7-2 ECAC) had a 3-2 advantage with a minute remaining...

Author: By Nick Traverse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revenge Up Next For Crimson | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...break from thesising late this January, I opened my web browser to The New York Times Web site and was greeted by chills running down my spine. Tucked away on the bottom-right corner of the screen, below headlines about flailing financial markets and the South Carolina primaries were the puzzling words: “Heath Ledger Found Dead...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: The James Dean Effect | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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