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...Marco B. Simmons '97, a member of the finance committee, said Hanselman's proposal raises both ethical and practical questions...
...addition to those six, McCarthy and sophomore Marco Ferrari will add plenty of depth on defense...
...Marco E. Roth, Halikman's boyfriend and former associate arts and entertainment editor, said that Halikman acted on Altman's suggestion. Roth resigned his position last week...
...hidden. Even his demise was a secret for a while: he died during a military campaign, and no one was told until the enemy ruler surrendered weeks later. Then a funeral procession made its way north to the Mongolian steppe, a route that took several more weeks. According to Marco Polo, who arrived in Mongolia about 60 years later, soldiers accompanying the procession killed everyone they encountered, as well as some 2,000 servants, who were allegedly buried with the Khan. Later the soldiers themselves were executed. It is known that the tomb is on a mountain named Burkhan-kaldun...
...imaginings. Mighty string-pulling brought a rare approval from the Chinese to visit Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location of the palace, and the vast size of Kublai's grounds, can be traced today, with the help of guides from...