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...courses, “A Natural History,” Smail attempts to frame the history of humanity within a timespan of several million years. Beginning from the Australopithecine genus, Smail traces human development from its early stages through the agricultural revolution to the early-modern period in Europe...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medievalist To Join Faculty | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...thousand years of Turkish culture and a civilization stretching from Central Asia to the Balkans, one need only step inside London's Royal Academy of Arts. "Turks," the institute's latest extravaganza (through April 12), draws visitors into a souk of dimly lit, treasure-filled galleries. Following a timespan from 600 to 1600 A.D., from the nomadic Uighur people of Chinese Central Asia to the Ottoman splendor of Sultan Mehmed III in Istanbul, "Turks" illustrates how successive groups learned from the cultures they encountered and sometimes conquered. It's a tale of assimilation and adaptation in the exotic landscapes crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkish Delights | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

Sadly, most of the problems in the end seem to come down to the direction. It is no small feat assembling a cast and crew like this, putting up a technically difficult show in a short timespan. But the extra elements that make a show not just functional, but truly great (or even involving) are absent. The characters don’t appear to have relationships with one another. And while fairy-tale characters don’t have to be too deeply etched, their actions need to be believable given their personalities, and their bittersweet solo numbers need...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lost In the Woods | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

Bebee and Crimson junior midfielder setup the nerve-racking conclusion to the game, each striking off face-off wins in a 45 second timespan to leave the score 7-6 Harvard, with...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 18 M. Lacrosse Edges Hobart, 6-7 | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard men's ice hockey team can capture its first Beanpot title since 1993 with a win over Boston University Monday night. The honor and prestige of the tournament would easily make it Harvard's most significant victory in that timespan and bring back some old time glory to the program...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Beanpot Respite for M. Hockey | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

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