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...spiritual center at all. Machu Picchu, it turns out, may have been nothing more than a mountain retreat for the Emperor Pachacuti and his royal court, sort of a 15th century Camp David. "It was just a country palace where they'd go to get away from the capital, Cuzco," says Yale archaeologist Richard Burger. "It was only a three-day walk away...
...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 of Rowe's, and his wife Lucy Salazar...
Wolcowitz said his office may also work on expanding the limited number of Harvard Summer School classes that are taught abroad by Harvard Faculty. Currently these programs include the Italian Language and Culture program in Calabria and Sicily, and the Latin American Literature and History program in Cuzco, Peru...
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Officials in Cuzco, Peru, want to furl their flag, saying it too closely resembles the gay-pride banner. They complain that some visiting dignitaries refused to be photographed near it. They have sympathizers at the University of Hawaii who recently punted their team name and symbol for the same reason. An H has replaced the rainbow on helmets, and the team, previously known as the Rainbow Warriors, will simply be called the Warriors...
...care/ Of this sweet and beautiful Mother Earth/ to which I will one day return." Their cosmology--which, among other things, holds animals, plants and rivers as the equals of humans--seems ill-suited to urban life. But they are more relaxed than the average New Yorker parachuting into Cuzco. They are completely unfazed when Turner high-fives them during a recess...