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Archaeology tells a more complicated tale. Historians generally agree that Joshua's conquest would have taken place in the 13th century B.C. But British researcher Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated at Jericho for six years, found no evidence of destruction at that time. Indeed, says Dead Sea Scrolls curator emeritus Broshi, "the city was deserted from the beginning of the 15th century until the 11th century B.C." So was Ai, say Broshi and others. And so, according to archaeological surveys, was most of the land surrounding the cities. Says Broshi: "The central hill regions of Judea and Samaria were practically uninhabited...
...from its longtime Sunday-night time slot and replacing it with two sitcoms. Nearly every move backfired. Murder, She Wrote (now on Thursdays) has dropped from ninth in the ratings to 59th; Sunday-night viewership has fallen 25% (60 Minutes has dropped from sixth place in the ratings to 13th); and not a single new show--young, old or in-between--has been...
...actually a bit of a power-trip, to get to tell students what the low-down is in the 13th century," he says. "Although it was a shock, it was a good experience. I think my first lectures were a little rough, but the students were very tolerant...
...conspiracy with the bank and Iguchi, who last month pleaded guilty to concealing the losses. The moves were the most sweeping ever taken by the U.S. against so formidable a foreign lender. With $390 billion in total assets, Daiwa is the 10th largest bank in Japan and the 13th largest in the world...
...York City courtroom. Not only was he pleading guilty to covering up the $1.1 billion in losses he had incurred for Daiwa Bank's New York operations (and personally profiting by more than $500,000). He was also implicating unnamed senior executives at the bank--the world's 13th largest--in a conspiracy with him to keep the catastrophe secret from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. In London interbank lending rates jumped to reflect this latest blow to the Japanese banking system. Says Alicia Ogawa, an analyst at Salomon Brothers in Tokyo: "This new development serves only to increase distrust...