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...sunset last Monday, Jay Garner climbed to the top of the 4,000-year-old ziggurat in Ur in southern Iraq and looked down over the remains of the city of Abraham's birth. The former three-star general, assigned to invent a democracy from scratch, was preparing to preside the next morning over the first freely convened meeting of Iraqi leaders in memory. "There we were, at the birthplace of civilization, and we were about to create a democracy," says Garner. "I had tears in my eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Business | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...musuem’s artifacts will have great implications for the cultural heritage of “your average mid-western American,” Winter says. She points out that Iraq was home to the ancient city of Ur, the birthplace of the the Biblical patriarch Abraham...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ancient Treasures Lost | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...Ancient Sumeria was the birthplace of mathematics and astronomy in both Asia and Europe. It was of profound importance to polytheistic cultures to the east, in India. That is why we are talking of a great loss to world culture. It’s not just about Abraham...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ancient Treasures Lost | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...which Biblical character would make the best skateboarder? “Definitely not Job or Isaiah or Abraham. Maybe David. He has a lot of spunk and that whole ‘No Fear’ thing going...

Author: By M. M. Mooney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Would Jesus Ride? | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

Should Israel really be proud of this man? Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers is arguably the most pathetic show in television history. Abraham fathered a great nation. Moses led us from Egypt and gave us the law. Saban? He gave us strange robots that morphed into a larger robot, to defeat grotesque puppets and weird men in gray spandex called “puddies...

Author: By David Weinfeld, | Title: The Mighty Morphin' State of Israel | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

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