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...clinching win was Harvard's second over a ranked Villanova team in two weeks. On April 2nd, the Crimson easily defeated the Wildcats, 9-1, at the ECAC Championship...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 18 Women's Water Polo Finishes Third at Easterns | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Dayle (Tutor, Moors 2nd Floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: As Follows: Pforzheimer's Penis Problem | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...Invention According to tradition, an imperial eunuch named Cai Lun invented paper. The material, however, has been found in Chinese tombs dating to the 2nd century B.C. By the end of the 8th century, Chinese paper craftsmen had set up shop in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...only substantial biographical sources are the New Testament Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, brief documents written in colloquial Greek late in the generation of those who knew Jesus first- or secondhand. By the end of the 2nd century, these four had become the basic canonical texts of the mainline Christianity of Rome and the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...assessing their reliability. The disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided on the final contents of the New Testament were, above all else, superb literary critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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