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According to Slavic concentrator Molly J. Thomasy ’02, legend has it that one year the winter party was rowdy enough to get the Slavic department forever banned from using Adams House for functions. The winter party, however, was instrumental in helping Thomasy feel integrated into academic life at Harvard...
...Then we got on to the subject of miracles. Taliban legend has it that the Prophet Mohammed came to Mullah Omar in a 1994 dream and told this simple, half-blind village cleric to rid Afghanistan of the warlords, who were nothing but thieves and debauched murders. In the early days, Afghans thought that angels rode into battle with the Taliban, hovering above their tanks and pick-up trucks. I ask if Mullah Omar has performed any miracles lately. "Sure," says Amanullah, "he's still alive, isn't he? Isn't that miracle enough, when the mightiest nation on earth...
...young talent at Sundance, Redford lost his footing as a filmmaker. He cast himself in the popular but sappy 1998 romance The Horse Whisperer. "I had a plan never to direct myself," he says. "I didn't exactly enjoy it." He also directed last year's expensive bomb, The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Matt Damon and Will Smith as a golfer and his mystical caddy. "It was disappointing, but you live with that," says Redford. "I felt the point of the film was missed. Critics just didn't go with the mythological part of it, but I moved...
...according to Meir Shahar, a lecturer in East Asian studies at Tel Aviv University and the foremost historian of Shaolin, Yan Ming's idiosyncracies are well in keeping with the temple's past. "Shaolin monks have always adapted themselves to the legend that surrounds them," he says. "Many of the practices for which Shaolin is now famous were developed as a direct response to the way the monks had been portrayed in fiction and drama." If life at the Shaolin Temple has long imitated art, Yan Ming may be writing its newest chapter. Jet Li's next movie, rumor...
Harvard fell behind 21-0 to the Big Green by the half. Murphy’s halftime speech just may have turned this 2001 Harvard squad into the stuff of legend...