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...Muslim scholar, a white turban wrapped around his scarlet fez. He is bent double in the shade of a pine, scrubbing his feet and hands as he prepares to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque. The air is alive with the sacred mumblings of Hebrew and Arabic. It smells like dust and cumin and cardamom. And the gold of the Dome's roof--vibrant 1,300 years after it was built--reflects the sun back into the sky and reminds you, no matter what your faith, that there is a force larger than...
...Mets and Cardinals have clashed before. This is a rivalry that flourished in the eighties, steeped in names like Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee. They had some epic battles during that time but when the dust had settled on the decade only one team emerged with a World Series championship...
...cosmology surrounding the race got even weirder after the dust had settled. Freeman's individual gold, the first ever won by an indigenous Australian, turned out to be the 100th gold awarded to the country overall. It fairly announced, "Time for a new start." And people were buying into that. After the race, Freeman said, "I'm sure what has happened and what I symbolize will make a lot of difference to people's attitudes. It will change attitudes in the street and in the political forum." An outsider might have thought: fat chance. But by having already spoken...
Damn commies are whupping us even from the grave. Back in the heyday of communism, the gray bureaucrats in Moscow took great pride in their ability to leave the U.S. in the dust at the Olympics - after all, it was only at the Games that the Soviets could make good on Kruschev's promise that "we will bury...
This weekend, the Crimson hosted the 2000 Harvard Fall Invitational, a two-day single-elimination tournament involving five teams--Harvard, Davidson, Boston College, Boston University, and Dartmouth. When the dust cleared yesterday afternoon, eleven players were awarded first place trophies (actually Veritas-inscribed mugs). Eight of these eleven presently enroll at Harvard College...