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...been dug up by Indiana Jones in Egypt and ark-napped by Nazis, whom the Ark proceeded to incinerate amidst a tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real-life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container for the original Ark), to a dusty bottom shelf in a museum in Harare, Zimbabwe...
...Jericho behind the trumpets to bring the walls tumbling down. The Bible last places the Ark in Solomon's temple, which Babylonians destroyed in 586 BC. Scholars debate its current locale (if any): under the Sphinx? Beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount (or, to Muslims, the Noble Sanctuary)? In France? Near London's Temple tube station? (See the top 10 religion stories...
Parfitt started wondering about another aspect of the Lemba's now-credible oral history: a drumlike object called the ngoma lungundu. The ngoma, according to the Lemba, was near-divine, used to store ritual objects, and borne on poles inserted into rings. It was too holy to touch the ground or to be touched by non-priests, and it emitted a "Fire of God" that killed enemies and, occasionally, Lemba. A Lemba elder told Parfitt, "[It] came from the temple in Jerusalem. We carried it down here through Africa." (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...
...great Indonesian artist Sudjojono at a retrospective of his work in Singapore in May. The World Bank has commissioned them to produce works for poverty-alleviation and anticorruption campaigns starting later this year. The group is even making hesitant steps in the direction of merchandizing, setting up a shop near its old squat (they used to live in a derelict building on the campus of Yogyakarta's Indonesian Institute of the Arts, known after its Indonesian initials as ISI). "We can't avoid the system," shrugs founding member Mohammad Yusuf, 33, pointing out that when the group does earn money...
...Like rats jumping off the sinking ship of the professional print business, it seems inevitable that more media publishers will hunt for profit at college papers in the near future. But we, current and future leaders in student journalism, must stand our ground and ward off corporate vultures to keep the student press as it was intended to be—run by students...