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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Waters Of Life | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Twice Victorious on Local Waters | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

...Crimson also participated in the Smith Trophy competition held at MIT, placing eleventh out of 23 teams in the first day of action. Next weekend promises a somewhat lighter workload for the team, which will return home to the waters of the Charles River to participate in the Victorian Urn. —Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Registers Another Busy Weekend Before ACCs | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...artists whose gentle yet tearful lyrical confessions sell millions of records to disaffected youth squealing, “I want my MTV2!” And their duct-taped wallets are just twitching for Bright Eyes’ latest two albums, released simultaneously as Digital Ash In A Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning...

Author: By Ben F. Tarnoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

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