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...puzzle lovers do not have to wait for the next party before finding a mecca of games. The MIT museum is currently sponsoring an exhibit of an extravaganza of puzzles. Six rooms at the museum are devoted to puzzles; they comprise a unique genre including mathematics, painting, and sculpture, as well as some psychology...
Cambridge: rowing's Mecca. Home of the powerful Harvard and Radcliffe crews and many of the country's finest individual scullers...
...result, Atlas said the city is no longer the literary Mecca that it once was. Atlas said, "New York is no longer the center of the literary world. It's the center of the publishing and the media world, but [for literature] there is no center...
...rulers of Saudi Arabia, ordinarily loath to clash openly with Muslim brethren, have decided to take off the gloves. Their wrath is directed at the Iranian government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom the Saudis blame for last month's rioting in the holy city of Mecca in which 400 people were reported killed. In Jidda last week Prince Naif, the Saudi Interior Minister, held a rare press conference at which he charged that Iran had plotted a "conspiracy" in sending Shi'ite Muslim "criminal gangs" to Mecca to foment trouble against the Saudis...
Iran has also continued its imprecations against Saudi Arabia in the wake of the rioting at Mecca last month that left nearly 300 Iranian pilgrims dead. The strain was worsened by news last week that a Saudi diplomat had died from injuries suffered when he fell, or was pushed, out of a window while Iranian mobs sacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran following the Mecca riot...