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...motif found on a pre-Columbian tunic from Peru's central coast - to $2,500 for a one-of-a-kind Native American sterling silver and green turquoise necklace featuring a pendant called a naja, the Navajo word for crescent. www.brooklynmuseum.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Like the Real Thing | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...poet, what’s the word or line you’ve found most beautiful or affecting...

Author: By Xiaofei Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Paulus Berensohn | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...made up a word. It’s “efflubiation...

Author: By Xiaofei Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Paulus Berensohn | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...show during amateur nights. The crowd’s reaction dictates all—offending acts are booed off-stage, and the winner is voted in by enthusiastic cheers. The show’s acts varied in genre as well as skill, including dance performances, a vocalist, a spoken-word artist, a guitarist, and—of course—several requisite references to Soulja Boy. Rejection wasn’t always determined by talent: the undergraduate dance group Expressions kicked off the night with a high-tech display, and the audience was quick to boo a glitch...

Author: By Xiaofei Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing ‘World Famous’ to Harvard | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...that some modern scholars consider the relationship between David, a king of Israel, and Jonathan, the son of David’s predecessor Saul, to have been homoerotic. Another question asked contestants to name two popular Jewish dating Web sites. Jdate.com and Frumster.com—from the Yiddish word “frum,” meaning religiously observant—were acceptable answers. Topics also focused on more contemporary aspects of Jewish sex law, such as the Conservative movement’s 2006 decision to allow openly gay rabbis and Jewish rulings on birth control. Because they prevent...

Author: By Benjamin M. Jaffe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Jewbilation' Turns to Sexuality | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

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