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WOMEN’S VICTORIAN COFFEE URN...
...from Tokyo - might be recognizable if you've seen The Last Samurai, scenes from which were filmed in the courtyard of its daikodo, or Great Hall. The rooms at Engyoji, tel: (81-79) 266 3240, are rather less grand but pleasant nonetheless, simply furnished with a futon and an urn of green tea. There is no dawn ceremony but private meditation sessions can be arranged. RENGEJO-IN: This beautiful temple, tel: (81-73) 656 2233, is located atop Mount Koya - a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, home to Japan's oldest Buddhist sect (the Shingon...
...just like to say for the whole gang, except for the dead one of course, how pleased we are..." And in a 1998 reunion at Aspen, the gang sits in chairs behind what they say are Chapman's ashes; then Idle gets up to hold the urn and trips, dropping...
Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
...true, it is definite that two regatta victories are also better than one, and that is exactly what the Harvard sailing team picked up this weekend. The Harvard coed team won the Erin Schell Trophy at MIT on Sunday, and the Crimson women also won the Victorian Coffee Urn, which Harvard hosted. The coed team won the Schell Trophy with 208 points, besting second place Brown by 32 points. The Crimson was led by its B division team of sophomores Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec, who were able to capture the division with considerable ease, winning with 63 points...