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Matmata is a small village nestled in the rocky hills of southeastern Tunisia in north Africa. Over the centuries, the town's Berber settlers developed an ingeniously simple way of beating the withering summer sun and cold winter winds. They fashion a village of pit houses, huge craters disguising a complex array of caves used as houses, granaries, and "barns...
Last month the Dean of Students' office sent out some 6600 invitations to an outdoor black tie affair on October 11, as partial compensation for holding the bulk of the 350th celebration while undergrads were out of town. I saw it for what it was: a tail-between-the-legs attempt to avoid student criticism and smooth our ruffled feathers. But what the hell, I'm always up for a good party...
Catliff's four goals--along with the booters' near-flawless defensive performance--erased all questions about the potential of this year's Harvard squad. That potential was barely tested Wednesday, when the Crimson cruised to a 3-0 decision over cross-town non-rival...
...nation's oldest university took time out at the beginning of the month to celebrate its 350-year history. The four-day, multi-million dollar extravaganza lit up the campus, and 40,000 alumni revelers painted the town crimson...
...other writers might finish them, then uses flashbacks to build up remarkable suspense about the disposition of foregone conclusions. Fits starts off matter-of-factly: "The two people who died were in their early sixties." There has been, it turns out, a particularly gory murder-suicide in a small town. Nobody knows what drove this couple to such a fate. Speculation flourishes: "A division of opinion became evident between men and women. It was nearly always the men who believed and insisted that the trouble had been money, and it was the women who talked of illness." Yet the story...