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...make sense to dance in the abstract,” she added. “Clay has an almost metaphysical relationship to the body.” For the workshop’s final segment, Berensohn led the group outside, where he expanded his discussion to Eastern medicine, capitalism, “inner assurance” (his alternative to health insurance), and the gods and goddesses of the body. He argued that deep ecology is a way of life, drawing on the more-than-human in the everyday. It is this sense of continuousness between art and life that Berensohn...
Harvard will have to avoid lethargic starts in its next games, as it prepares for the Northern and Eastern tournaments...
...team has nine days before the Northern championships, followed by another two week rest for its final tournament of the season, the Eastern championships...
...Vinci Code as a work of history, however, the glory didn't last. The order lost its purpose and credibility when the Muslim warrior Saladin drove the Crusaders from Jerusalem in 1187, setting the Templars on a path of retreat that saw them give up their last Mid-Eastern foothold, in what is now Syria, in 1303. From there, the decline was precipitous: The Templars failed in an effort to take control of Cyprus, and then, in 1307, Philip IV of France found it more convenient to order the arrest and torture of the Templars to extract confessions of heresy...
...modern credit practices." It certainly made them some of Europe's richest and most powerful financiers. The Templars have been described as taking crown jewels and indeed entire kingdoms as mortgage for loans, and they maintained major branches in France, Portugal, England, Aragon, Hungary and various Mid-Eastern capitals. The group controlled as many as 9,000 estates, and left behind hundreds of buildings great and small. (The London subway stop Temple is named after one of them...