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Myth has it that Morocco's Atlas Mountains were formed when the hero Perseus turned the eponymous Titan to stone by forcing him to look at the head of Medusa the Gorgon. A visit to the town of Ouarzazate, on the mountains' edge and 400 km outside Marrakech, might lead to you to believe that Atlas survived and that the giant is now amassing a collection of supersized toys. Roman amphitheaters, Tibetan temples and Egyptian sphinxes tower over the arid terrain, left behind at the appropriately named Atlas Studios by crews working on films including Kingdom of Heaven, Kundun...
...play.As Penn takes that long bus ride back from Ithaca Saturday night, it will have nearly four weeks and five meaningless games standing between it and a matchup with a No. 3 or 4 seed in the NCAA tournament. It’s most daunting remaining game (a road visit to Yale) takes place during the league’s closing weekend, meaning that the Quakers could probably wear those Ivy Champion caps and shirts they busted out the week before on the bus ride up to New Haven.That’s five weeks of rust and atrophy that...
...Some of the bigger schools in the [Persian] Gulf have had admissions people visit,” said Shakir. “But they said having students there made all the difference...
Oxford University’s Chancellor will embark on a visit to India next month in an attempt to advertise Oxford University as an alternative to Harvard and other Ivy League universities. Chancellor Christopher Francis Patten said in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) that Oxford needed to increase its recruiting efforts to stay competitive with American schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Noting that Oxford was “falling further and further behind” U.S. universities in recruiting top international talent, Patten said that all schools need to have a thorough strategy to target prospective...
...ultimately in the hands of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which reports to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And despite the Iranian president's defiant posture, the National Security Council has signaled its continuing interest in a negotiated settlement by announcing that an Iranian delegation will visit Moscow next week for talks on a proposed Russian compromise. But with Ahmadinejad turning the nuclear issue into a populist cause, it's far from certain that the more pragmatic heads will prevail...