Word: vinci
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...only five-game match of the day came at the No. 6 position. Junior intercollegiate No. 27 Asher Hochberg split the first four games with No. 45 Andrew Vinci before bearing down and finishing the match with an impressive 9-1 victory in the fifth game...
Long before Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code hit the shelves, Harvard’s own biblical sleuth was on the case. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Karen L. King has been cracking the codes of early Christianity for more than 20 years...
...sense that she asks people to rethink their conceptions of Christianity, King deals with many of the same ideas as Da Vinci Code. But she brushes aside comparisons between herself and the novel’s fictional Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. The scholar and self-described feminist says the closest field to Langdon’s nonexistent field of symbology would be semiology, a field unrepresented at Harvard...
...married and had a child, which the book postulates, King acknowledges that it is possible. But, as scholars we can’t know, says King, and “it’s really, really unlikely that they were married.” Anyone reading Da Vinci Code would be “ill-advised to take it as history,” King continues, because the book presents a “mixed bag of misinformation and partial truths and in some cases things that are just wrong...
...from a scholarly perspective, she credits the book with “lead[ing] people to ask questions” about the Church like “if that’s not true, what else haven’t we been told?” King explains Da Vinci Code’s phenomenal success by suggesting that people look for meaning by thinking about the body and sexuality in a Christian way. Women, she thinks, find comfort in the idea of a married woman with a baby as an alternate figure to the polarized female models of virgins...