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...degree, but they come to Africa to make fortunes and garner respect. Zheng He did as well. It was from Malindi, now a sleepy resort town a two-hour drive up the coast from Mombasa, that he received his most precious tributes: a qilin (or unicorn), a celestial stag and a celestial horse - now identified more prosaically as a giraffe, an oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially its abundance of rare animals and medicinal herbs - and spun them into treasure...
...favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening for a painter to show what he could do with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa 1653-54, there is no Actaeon, no river, no nakedness, and instead of plunging into the stream, Diana is merely having her foot washed in a basin by a nymph--Christian paganism, complete with that image of spiky, untouchable virtue, a thistle, sprouting by her side...
Sophomore Jay Wich scored Harvard's final goal at 7:24 in the fourth period, but was answered by Stag Rob Scipioni in the last two minutes of the game to finish the Crimson...
...Crimson worked to close the gap in the second half, taking advantage of 12 Stag turnovers. With 8:23 remaining, Harvard had cut Fairfield's lead...
...Stags would retake the momentum and take over the game for good in the next 2:30. Fairfield's Tapley drained a three that began a 13-5 Stag run. That run ended with the Crimson trailing, 76-59. The Crimson would reduce that 17-point deficit only once, at the 5:05 mark when the Crimson trailed...