Word: ancient
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...gesture seemed nice: Stanford University would return some 550 ancient remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the remains for about 40 years, immediately announced he was the owner of most of them. Thereupon the chairman of Stanford's anthropology department, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., had the locks changed on the collection. The wrangle grew wider as scientists contemplated the loss of the bones, some...
Members of the self-help group Gamblers Anonymous, who see Rose as one of them, nod and say, aha, his reaction sounds like another part of the classic pattern: denial. There is an ancient gag among Gamblers Anonymous members: "How do you know when a compulsive gambler is lying? When you see his lips move...
...four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff on each winning card is $1,000; total prizes every night are at least $40,000. That tops the church bingo games that prompted an ancient wheeze: "Did you hear about the Cadillac dealer? He won a Catholic church in a bingo game...
...International Security Joseph S. Nye Jr, for example, served as deputy undersecretary of state in the Carter administration and as an advisor on national security affairs for the presidential campaign of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Nye, the author ofNuclear Ethics, teaches a popular Core course on international relations from ancient Greece to the cold...
...task. Video games go in and out of fashion quickly, and many of the older models, it turned out, were close to extinction. The exhibit's organizers spent months canvassing dealers and manufacturers in an effort to locate surviving machines. "To the people we were dealing with, 1982 was ancient history," says Rochelle Slovin, the museum's director. "So many games were difficult to find. Many just got thrown out or were repainted...