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...Jorge Garces, a street performer with the Peruvian folk music group Inca Sun, street performance is a much more common profession in his native South America. "For us it is a tradition," he explains. Indeed, from Homer to Spanish gypsies, minstrelsy may be the civilized world's third-oldest profession--after, of course, prostitution and law. Unfortunately, says Ned Landin, a street performer known to his following as "Flathead," street performance is about as venerated in the United States as numbers one and two. "Here you get bumped into being a street person. Not that there's anything wrong with...
...assume the New Testament was written long after the Crucifixion occurred, and so reflects the agenda and faith of the second generation of Christians, not events as experienced by the original apostles. That whole approach is undercut by the purported discovery announced in January of what would be the oldest manuscript of a Gospel, which dates to A.D. 70, when many eyewitnesses would have been around to protest any inaccuracies...
...University prepares to welcome James R. Houghton '58, named this week as the latest addition to America's oldest corporation, those faculty who harbored such hopes are surely shuddering...
Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the campus,has a series of ghost stories connected with it.Jay W. Glaubach '97 documented one story aboutHolden Chapel for a Folk and Myth project.According to Glaubach, Holden Chapel used to bethe dissecting room for the medical school. Onsome dark nights, the chapel is haunted by thefiancee of a man whose body was snatched from hisgrave to be dissected by Harvard Med Schoolstudents...
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq -- the chief opponents of President Saddam Hussein -- claim to have wounded the leader's oldest son, Udai, in a Baghdad murder attempt and nearly assassinated the country's defense minister. Iranian radio reports said both assassination attempts occurred in the last 48 hours. TIME Istanbul contributor James Wilde says the Kurdish attacks are also disturbing neighboring Turkey, a strong U.S. ally already preoccupied by a series of domestic riots this week...