Word: ais
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Exodus, the story of Joshua and the conquest of Canaan can be tested against a rich archaeological record. The scientific consensus: bad news for the biblical account. According to the Book of Joshua, the Israelite leader and his armies swept into Canaan, destroying cities including Jericho, Hazor and Ai, after which the Israelites settled the land...
...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. The Israelites didn't have to kill and burn to settle...
...League has recognized the trials of trying to be a football conference while keeping academic standards high, and as a result, introduced something in 1985 called an academic index (AI) to regulate the scholastic abilities of the incoming football players, of whom an average of 35 are allowed in each year...
...University went along with the AI in the hope of preserving academic integrity, it was at most a half-hearted effort. The schools are admitting, contrary to every public statement they make, that they put football players in a completely different admissions category, where the athlete clearly takes precedence over the student part of the student-athlete. The index takes the admission decision out of the realm of the University honor and insures it will bend its academic standards a set number of times in the search for gridiron glory...
While the University could either opt for a good team or stringent academic standards, with the AI it is left with neither. What it is able to do is have something that it can show to both sides and pretend to give them each what they want...