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...converged. Lemba myth venerates a city called Senna. In modern-day Yemen, in an area with people genetically linked to the Lemba, Parfitt found a ghost town by that name. It's possible that the Lemba could have migrated there from Jerusalem by a spice route - and from Senna, via a nearby port, they could have launched the long sail down the African coast. As for the Ark? Before Islam, Arabia contained many Jewish-controlled oases, and in the 500s AD, the period's only Jewish kingdom. It abutted Senna. In any case, the area might have beckoned to exiled...
...would an authorchoose a book title that conjures up such a noxious image? Because that's how annoyed Godin is with corporate America's attempt to co-opt Web-based selling, via sites like YouTube and MySpace, and permission marketing (that's the sundae) for their stodgy businesses (the meatball). "It's not an accident that almost all the brands, products, and careers that have succeeded with New Marketing are brand-new and fresh," writes Godin. "It insists on a reinvention of the entire organization and the products it creates...
...bonds between delegates. These friendships suggest that HCAP does more than simply create interest in another culture, as it sets out to do. Seema Amble ’09, who attended Hong Kong University’s conference last year, has kept in touch with the delegates she met via the internet. “In Hong Kong, they are huge fans of Facebook, so they’re all my Facebook friends,” she says. HCAP provides a uniquely fun and exciting educational experience for everyone involved. “I’ve been to Asia...
...Castine ’09 took charge. Motivated by his longing for the soothing song of SportsCenter and sitcoms upon his arrival at Harvard as a transfer student in the fall of 2006, Castine launched Crimson Cable, which developed a surprisingly feasible proposal for a business to provide cable via power lines to Harvard’s 12 undergraduate houses, only to see the proposal summarily dismissed by school administrators on the basis of largely superficial objections. Last August, Harvard University Information Services hired an outside consultant to evaluate the Crimson Cable proposal—but kept its results private...
Cash for Capture The State Department is so confident that some unnamed Southeast Asian terrorists will be nabbed "in the near future" that its new budget asks for an extra $6 million to pay for their capture via its Rewards for Justice tips program. There are more than $704 million of outstanding reward offers worldwide. A few of the region's most-wanted extremists...