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...Except for the sounds of playing children in the alley outside, all is silence. "It's hard to believe we are in the center of a city of 15 million, isn't it?" she says. Hers is a traditional, single-story courtyard home in one of the city's ancient hutongs, the lanes that the city's Mongol designers intended as the heart of the metropolis when they planned it in 1272. There were once 6,000 hutongs in Beijing, but the tidal wave of change that has accompanied the city's explosive growth over the last two decades...
...defending Ivy League champion and the highest nationally ranked team in the Ancient Eight at the start of the season, the Harvard men’s soccer team (9-3-2, 2-2-0 Ivy) has been playing with a target on its back from the beginning. On Saturday at Ohiri Field, Dartmouth (9-3-2, 3-0-1 Ivy) forward Craig Henderson hit that target, scoring the game’s only goal and handing the Crimson its second Ivy loss of the year. Thirty minutes into the first half, Henderson, who was standing about six yards away from...
With three games to play, it’s down to a two-horse race for the Ancient Eight trophy. Well, not technically, but unless there is a two-loss champ for the first time in a quarter of a century, the champion of the Ivy League will celebrate the conclusion of its title season on a late afternoon following The Game in New Haven in less than three weeks. Whether that champion is Harvard or Yale (or both) has yet to be determined. Dartmouth met the Crimson on Saturday with just a single Ivy loss for the first time...
It’s a special Halloween edition of Around the Ivies for the countless Ancient Eight football fans who’ll be dressing up as superheroes or vampires or zoo animals or Pokemon characters and trolling for candy this week. On the gridiron, costumes won’t fool fans any longer. It’s already Week 7, the time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from...
Given their ability to change the nature of things, it's fitting that the Campanas' current project is designing sets for Création 2007, the Ballet National de Marseille's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, premiering in Luxembourg in December. Ancient Rome meets contemporary Brazil? Look out for the Dance of the Vestal Refuse Collectors; it's sure to swing...