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...matter of fact, for more than 300 years, Sevcenko says, scholars have generally thought that a 10th-century manuscript chronicling the life of Basil, a ninth-century Byzantine emperor, was written by the ruler's grandson, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus...
...places, while four of the Crimson women finished in the top 10 spots. Junior Kate Wiley set the pace for the field, breaking the tape in 17:25, 14 seconds ahead of Yale's Margaret Wynne. Third-place Kathy Good covered and Lois Brommer look eighth and ninth for Harvard...
...invited to go to a dancing school in Washington. And when he was in eight or ninth grade he showed up at Mrs. Shippins [dance school] and demanded to know why there were no Blacks there," Brinkley said. "She threw...
LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY...
...discovery and the need for humility when faced with nature's endless secrets. "It is not just that there is more to do," he writes, "there is everything to do." Urgent notes are struck, especially in the title piece. The final strains of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony no longer evoke a musical metaphor for death's natural release. The long string passage now stirs images of the world's end. The reason for the change is that the sage has been caught up in the nuclear arms debate: "Words like disaster and catastrophe...