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...sail down the African coast. As for the Ark? Before Islam, Arabia contained many Jewish-controlled oases, and in the 500s AD, the period's only Jewish kingdom. It abutted Senna. In any case, the area might have beckoned to exiled Jews bearing a special burden. Parfitt also found eighth-century accounts of the Ark in Arabia, by Jews-turned-Muslims. He posits that at some undefined point the Lemba became the caretakers of the Ark, or the ngoma...

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

...first 10 points of the second half and went to the free throw line three times in the opening minutes of the first frame. A foul on Maduka by junior Liz Tyndal after a tussle for the rebound put Maduka on the line and gave Harvard its eighth team foul of the second half with 14:19 still to play.“The rebounding is a reflection of a lot of other breakdowns we were having,” Hallion said. “We were basically getting outworked in every area by Cornell. It was a big crossroads...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cornell Demolishes Harvard | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...challenge for Harvard. The Crimson fell, 9-0, but a few matches were close and could have had very different outcomes. Fourth seeded Buchanan took a 2-1 lead on Bantam opponent freshman Andres Vargas Heredia, but Buchanan could not hold on and lost the match, 3-2. The eighth-ranked Smith also took his match to four games. Down 0-2, Smith was able to rally back in the third game but was defeated in the fourth game. “Even though we lost 9-0 we all played with heart and there matches that could have gone...

Author: By Alison E. Schumer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Powerhouses Tank Hopes for Title | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...right track for the season.”Next up on the slate for the Crimson is the ECAC Championships on Mar. 1. The team will look to utilize its depth and build on its play over the past weekend to improve on last season’s eighth-place finish at Eastern Championships.—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weekend Split in Season Openers | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...center of a bloody stand-off between the government and the opposition in which 1,000 have died since a disputed general election in December. Notwithstanding the President's comments in Tanzania, the U.S. gives $1 billion a year in aid to a Kenyan government that ranks eighth from the bottom in Transparency International's world corruption tables. Bush has declined to visit Kenya, a key ally in Africa, sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to bolster mediation efforts by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Accents the Positive in Africa | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

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