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MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Plea for Enlightenment Roman tour guides, weary of answering questions from clueless tourists, have launched an educational campaign to persuade visitors to brush up on the city's history and culture before arriving. The guides can no longer remain polite in the face of queries such as "Where is Christ's grave?" and "Was the Colosseum built as a ruin?" When we all know it was made for the set of Gladiator...
Sure enough, quintessential bad-boy Daniel “Skirt” Cleaver (Hugh Grant) saunters on the scene. Cleaver hosts a wildly successful travel show, “The Smooth Guide” (sample travel tips: “When in Rome, do it with a Roman;” “In New York, sex and the city isn’t a program, it’s a promise”). Cue dramatic break-up scene with the too-good-to-be-true Darcy, allowing Bridget to be free for a naughty dabble with Cleaver. What...
...Roman composer Arcangelo Corelli and his contemporary, Antonio Vivaldi of Venice may have shared genius in common, but their musical personalities were as different as can be. The talented members of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, led by award-winning director Robert Mealy ’85, bring the works of these two masters to life for an evening of musical contrasts. Tickets $10, $5 for students, seniors. 8 p.m. Memorial Church. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...history) know how to use LaTeX, BibTeX, and PSTricks—professional software used in math and sciences—to typeset their term papers? (Microsoft Word is for amateurs.) How many people can just glance at a document and be able to tell that the text is Times Roman 11.5 point instead of 12? How many people can tell the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman? I’m guessing not many, so I’m a member of a proud...
...moors ruled Andalucia in southern Spain from the 8th to 12th centuries, and among their more sybaritic legacies are the hammams (bathhouses) found in the city of Granada. They were originally inspired by Roman baths?but the Moorish versions took opulence to new heights, featuring stuccoed alcoves, lavish geometric mosaics and horseshoe arches. The functions of the hammams weren't strictly utilitarian either: they were used by both sexes as places to drink tea and socialize as well as maintain personal hygiene. For cloistered Muslim women, a morning at the hammam was a welcome chance to groom, gossip, and spot...