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Expertly wielding a 35-inch sword, a Marine officer sliced up a giant chocolate cake to the strains of Auld Lang Syne to kick off a celebration of the 230th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Harvard Business School (HBS) Thursday. In a reunion laced with military tradition, 200 current and former Marines and officers gathered to hear about the history of the Corps, which was founded in 1775 at a Philadelphia tavern, and to discuss more contemporary challenges facing Marines in Iraq. Entering the event, festive Marines in uniform shouted “Happy Birthday?...
...questions, but they also uncovered natural phenomena that helped explain celestial processes. In his Book of Fixed Stars, 10th century scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi provided exact coordinates for 1,018 stars and 48 constellations. A 14th century copy of his book imaginatively renders a constellation as two sword-wielding warriors holding the heads of recently dispatched enemies. An 11th century celestial globe from Muslim Spain also pinpoints the precise locations of the then known stars, with delightful, fine-lined engravings of humans and animals marking the signs of the zodiac. During their occupation of Spain, Arabs invented...
...walked out of my English midterm last Tuesday—still wondering what the name of Beowulf’s king’s brother’s landlord’s sword was, or something like that—I found myself breathing a sigh of relief. Finally, after two long weeks of writing papers, catching up on reading, analyzing literature and pondering the prospects of finding life on extra-solar planets, it was over. All of my midterms were finally behind me, and in place of frantic studying, I could resume my usual activities of napping, editorializing...
...Biochemical Equation,” the collaboration single between the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (who did the soundtracks of both Kill Bill films) and indie-hop supervillain MF Doom last month had good reason to be excited for this project. I was dusting off my liquid sword, getting ready to guillotine heads once more. RZA wails, “Strong as the base of a mountain, there’s no countin’, how many MC’s have sprung from our fountain!” in his best verse since his paranoid rant...
...principles of socialism, learning to bake vegan brownies or appraising the coiffure of John Quincy Adams. Bookshelves are filled with out-of-print zines. “Stolen Sharpie Revolution,” is filed near “Things You Can Stab While Riding A Bike Carrying A Sword.” One shelf over? “Bad Hair...