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...luxurious sensibility pervades the building. The facilities for preprayer ablution have blond-wood and Plexiglas lockers. In the main hall hangs a bronze chandelier, dangling with hand-blown glass raindrops - a visual allusion to the Koranic verse that says Allah's light should fall on believers like drops of rain. The mihrab, which indicates the direction of prayer, is tulip-shaped and turquoise - "an opening to God," says Fadillioglu...
...around us. An occasional hornbill glides by, its wings sounding like flapping canvas. Romulus finds plenty of leopard footprints in the sand around our camps, but no sign of the owners or the pit vipers. One night, we try to keep a sentry fire burning all night in the rain to scare off wild elephants. The fire gutters out, but luckily the elephants have better things to do than crush us like bugs as we sleep...
...devolve) 2,200 years ago after Qin Shihuangdi, the unifier of China, infamously set fire to books and gazettes that he disagreed with; today it is celebrated by "sacrificing" jokey messages to the gods, setting slips of paper aflame like incense in hopes that the amused divinities will rain down good fortune...
...season, Harvard baseball has struggled to combine its pitching potential with strong offensive performances in a single game. During yesterday’s doubleheader, the team found each when it mattered.Picking up against Penn (10-11, 0-4 Ivy League) at Meiklejohn Field in games rescheduled due to Sunday rain, the Crimson (4-16, 2-2) used dramatic comebacks in both contests to sweep the Quakers and even its league record. Freshman Brent Suter threw a sterling complete game to silence Penn in the day’s opener for a 6-4 win, before Harvard’s bats...
...just didn’t get the hits that we needed when we needed them,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “We might have put a little too much pressure on ourselves. It wasn’t happening for us yesterday.”Rain postponed the Crimson’s doubleheader with Penn to this afternoon at 1 p.m. in Philadelphia.COLUMBIA 2, HARVARD 0Columbia’s Maggie Johnson had Harvard’s number both on the mound and at the plate in Saturday’s second game. The sophomore pitched...