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...Matteo is the son of wealthy Italian parents, Sophie the daughter of equally rich German ones. They meet, marry and set out for India in 1975, Matteo carrying a copy of Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East with him. The immensity of the country--its beauty and its filth, its holy men and its begging children--initially overwhelms them. And they discover that their reasons for going differ. Sophie is a hedonist, looking to apprehend reality through the senses: "I want to go to Goa and eat shrimp. I want to go to Kashmir and live...
After perceiving the entire universe in a small stone, Matteo suffers something of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a cure, he fetches up at an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, run by an elderly woman known to her devotees as the Mother. "We know the Divine Force is everywhere," she tells the faithful. "Bliss! Bliss now, bliss here, forever bliss." This is what Matteo has been waiting to hear. Sophie, now pregnant, is skeptical, but she moves in and bears the first of her two children...
...Senior Matteo Peccei said Connecticut's size also hurt the Crimson's chances...
Howard, in the scrum half position, exploded in the first minutes of the match to score and put Harvard ahead. By the end of the game, Howard had scored two tries. Senior prop Matteo Peccei scored the second try of the game, Marx said...
...Crimson slowly chipped away at the lead. Utilizing a three-point penalty kick and a powerful drive past the goal line from Matteo Peccei, Harvard brought itself to within 17-10 at the half...