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...captain Amy Bei and sophomore Asya Agulnik placed 13th and 16th, respectively, in the saber. As a team, Harvard finished fifth...
...Incan records--the Incas had no written language--but the Spaniards, who conquered so much of South America, kept plenty. Fifteen years ago, John Howland Rowe, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was studying the archives left by the Spaniards at Cuzco and came across a 16th century lawsuit filed by descendants of Pachacuti seeking the return of royal family lands, including a retreat called Picchu. Over the years, other researchers have dug deeper into the mystery, none deeper than Burger, a onetime student of Rowe's, and his wife Lucy Salazar, a Yale archaeologist...
CULTURAL RHYTHMS. The Harvard Foundation presents the 16th annual Cultural Rhythms Festival, with hip-hop artist Queen Latifah as emcee. Featuring performances by over 30 student organizations, including the Kuumba singers, the Chinese yo-yo team, the kung fu club, and other ethnic groups. Should be stunning and diverse as always. Saturday, Feb. 22, 3–5 p.m. Food reception to follow in the Science Center, and a free student-emceed second show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10 for Harvard ID-holders (limit 2 per person) at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall...
...16th birthday, Bayarsakhan was given this guitar by his own father, a renowned singer in Gobi-Altai. Now, almost 15 years later and hundreds of kilometers away from that stark idyll, Bayarsakhan starts to play one of his father's songs. The tune is rough, but the melody sweet. Words flow from memory?about Gobi-Altai and the land, about saddling up your best horse to ride across the valley. When it's over, Bayarsakhan stares at the ground. "I get sad when I play that," he says. "I wish I could take you to my home...
...SERNIN BASILICA, the biggest and most beautiful Romanesque church in southern France; the Musée des Augustins, a 14th century convent and cloister with magnificent Gothic and Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...