Word: polos
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...same time, Bonnaroo and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, held in a polo field in the desert outside of Palm Springs, California, were attracting huge crowds to multi-day marathons that strived to create an alt-culture atmosphere. Getting their cues from European music festivals like England's Glastonbury, Italy's Evolution Festival, Denmark's Roskilde and Norway's Lillehammer, U.S. promoters have realized that once-a-year mega-events have financial and logistical advantages. Multi-day music fests not only allow bands to reach more people in less time for more money, but the scale of such...
Back when most people stayed home, travel writing was a highly imaginative genre. Ask Pausanias, Ibn Battuta or Marco Polo about the strange creatures and bizarre customs that they, and evidently nobody else, encountered in their wanderings. But modern practitioners - Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer - have helped elevate travel writing, if not to a science, then at least to an art that values truth. No one has mastered that task more deftly than Jan Morris, 79, the England-born, thoroughly Welsh writer and historian. In more than 40 books and countless essays over the past half-century...
...They've seen it on TV. So as a writer you have to be more transcendental, more allegorical. Nearly everything has more to it than meets the eye. Even my life." Pausanias, that ancient Greek connoisseur of myth and meaning, would be pleased. So would Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo. They're both mentioned in Hav, well before the allegorical tunnel...
After a tough start to its season, the Harvard men’s water polo team improved down the stretch and reached the Eastern Championships for the second straight year. Under the guidance of second-year coach Erik Farrar, and led by junior co-captain Michael Garcia, the Crimson won its final three regular season games to finish the season with an 8-11 record and a 5-4 mark in the CWPA Northern Division. At the Northern Championships, Harvard clinched a spot at Easterns by beating Iona 11-10 in double overtime in the third-place game. At Easterns...
After an up-and-down beginning of the season, the Harvard women’s water polo team turned it on down the stretch. Shaking off three early losses to rival Brown, the Crimson beat the Bears, 6-5, on April 23 at the Northern Championships, clinching a berth at the year-end Eastern Championships. At Easterns, Harvard battled against higher-ranked seeds Indiana and Maryland before losing in the fourth quarter, 7-6 and 4-3, respectively, to finish No. 8 among the eight schools in the tournament. “Those were the toughest eight teams I have...