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It’s been nothing but nines for the Harvard ski team. Finishing in ninth for the sixth straight time, the Crimson kicked off a promising new season at the University of New Hampshire Carnival this weekend. The Nordic team headed to Jackson XC, and the alpine team hit the slopes at Attitash, the sites of this year’s upcoming NCAA championships. “We were in ninth place again,” said Crimson Nordic coach Peter Graves. “That’s where we were every carnival last year?...
...Norway for two years. “My time in Norway was incredibly important to me,” he said. Although it was “a tragic time politically in Zimbabwe,” he said he was grateful to spend two years at Red Cross Nordic United World College and see the world’s challenges from an international perspective. In fall 2002, he enrolled at Harvard, where his experiences in Zimbabwe and Norway led him to choose Social Studies as his concentration. In his sophomore summer, Robinson taught English to Tibetan refugee children in India...
...shouldn't stop at those days sacred to Catholics and other Christians. The Greeks, Romans and ancient Northern tribes so revered their gods that they named every day of the week after them (Sunday for the sun god, Monday for the moon god, Tuesday for the Nordic god Tyr, Wednesday for the Germanic god Wodin, Thursday for Thor or (the equivalent of Jupiter), Friday for the German goddess Friga (Venus) and Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Five of the first six months of the year honored various gods (Janus, Mars, Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification...
...record so weird and original that there’s no context for which it would be wholly appropriate, except maybe Halloween. The vocals are so heavily processed throughout that the singers never sound human—this is the sort of music ghosts might make, if they were Nordic and liked to dance as they haunted. That may not sound like a compliment, but believe me, it is.—Reviewer Eric L. Fritz can be reached at efritz@fas.harvard.edu. —Reviewer Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey can be reached at nhafrey@fas.harvard.edu
Eliasson, 39, who lives in Berlin, was raised in Denmark by Icelandic parents, so perhaps his yearning for light was carried in his Nordic bloodlines. But while he has been inspired by James Turrell and Dan Flavin, artists who use pure light as their medium, his purpose isn't merely to explore light's mystery and power. And though he has a decided sense of humor--one early work was a simple rainbow created in a spray of mist--minimalist performance-art jokes are the least of what he has in mind. What Eliasson cares about are the ways...