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Befitting a season opener, the Harvard men’s water polo team began the 2008 campaign with strong play accompanied by clear areas for improvement. Looking to build on a very successful 2007, the Crimson (1-1) kicked off the year close to home, competing at the Cambridge Invitational at MIT. Harvard battled two non-conference foes in the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center over the weekend, steamrolling Washington & Jefferson 18-7 on Saturday night before falling to No. 20 California Baptist 17-10 yesterday morning. Despite the offensive onslaught that brought 28 goals in two games, co-captain...
...city's star attraction is Imam Square. One of the largest in the world, it was originally built as a polo ground for Shah Abbas the Great, a charismatic tyrant who initiated Isfahan's Golden Age in the 16th century with his patronage of the arts. The south side of the square is dominated by the huge Imam Mosque complex, but it's the smaller Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque with its intricately patterned dome that awes visitors into silence. Look up and you may see a shimmering peacock in the center - a visual effect created by sunlight hitting the blue, white...
Springing from the fertile imagination of Venetian writer Alberto Toso Fei, this game-as-guide centers on a hunt for the Ruyi of the title, a mythical magical scepter stolen from Kublai Khan by Marco Polo. In the story, the explorer takes the scepter back to Venice - where Toso Fei's first Ruyi game is set - before it is donated to the Vatican. During the sack of Rome in 1527, the Pope commissions Florentine goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini to transform the Ruyi's appearance to keep it out of enemy hands...
...several U.S. women's teams will play for one, the basketball and volleyball teams having advanced to the gold medal games. The U.S. even made table tennis history. Chen Wang became the first American, man or woman, to ever make the quarterfinals in a singles event. Yes, the water polo team lost to The Netherlands, earning silver. But softball is the true surprise; the sport was dropped from the Olympics, in part, because the U.S. was so dominant. "I really kind of feel that maybe people [will] get off our back, and realize that there is some parity in this...
...keep whatever European royal title your family is holding on to. Boxing champions get only three points, since everyone would clearly rather watch ultimate fighting. Sports in which competitors wear makeup get a deduction, as do sports played in only one area of the world: badminton (Asia), water polo (California), field hockey (Smith College). I would also consider body mass index in the point system. Phelps is clearly in incredible athletic shape, so he'd get twice as many points for his wins as the table-tennis gold medalist would. In fact, if time allows, I'd have...