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...article like this confirms my assertion that there is no honor at Harvard; divinity left with the monks. If the students of Harvard lived and ate as those monks, they would run crying home to mama. Grow up Harvard. Father Roman of St. Danilov Monastery has more humility than the Harvard Divinity School and more religion under his finger nail than all of Harvard. Burn your money, children, for you do not trust...
This past Saturday night, retired Roman Catholic Priest Joseph Pilger, 78, was beaten to death in his home in Lexington...
...Russian delegation—which included Archimandrite Alexy Polikarpov, the father superior of the monastery, Danilov’s chief bell-ringer, Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov and Alexie Rogar from the Russian Consulate in New York—also met with Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and dined with Lowell House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...
...last days of Pompeii has been the title of, among other things, a historical romance by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, a mini-series featuring Lesley-Anne Down and a porn flick starring one Candy Samples. It's hard to beat the location: the playground of the Roman aristocracy, a town swollen and oozing with corruption and decadence, conveniently located near a large, picturesque source of divine retribution. First sex, then violence--what's not to like...
Pompeii itself is a curious dish. It's marketed as a thriller, but it contains a lot more information about Roman engineering techniques and volcanology than your average Tom Clancy, and there are moments when the story feels like just an excuse to show off another nifty piece of research. Still, if Pompeii lumbers heavily at first, it eventually picks up speed, helped along by squalls of flying lava and gusts of uncommonly sharp writing, as well as by the undeniable pathos of Harris' most successful character, the great natural philosopher Pliny, who insists on recording his observations of Vesuvius...