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...long corridor. When Kitov broke through the stone walls covering the entrances, he found the first room contained the remains of a sacrificed horse. The grave itself is in the third chamber, carved out of a single block of limestone weighing more than 60 tons. Inside was a ritual deathbed, a resting place for the spirit, covered in gold thread. But no bones: the body was most likely burned or buried. Kitov believes the tomb, which was built around 150 years later than the one that contained the mask, belonged to King Seuthes III, who ruled in the late...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge dismissed a suit yesterday filed by a local resident who is seeking to block Harvard’s plans to construct graduate student housing on Memorial Drive...
Hill has criticized the plans, saying Harvard’s proposed new buildings will block his family’s view of the Charles River and arguing that their needs are being ignored...
...19th century, the filibuster was used only 22 times; now Democrats regularly filibuster dozens of times a year. And until the Democrats started filibustering judges two years ago, the measure was almost never used to defeat a President's judicial nominee. Since then, they have used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's picks--seven of whom he has renominated, in part to provoke this week's showdown. Democrats say what they are doing is no worse than the Republicans' preferred tactic when Bill Clinton was President: making sure controversial nominations never got past the Judiciary Committee, which...
...funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank in the U.S. Two weeks later, the company announced that it would introduce policies to promote sustainable forestry and indigenous people's rights and would block funding that could be used for illegal logging. It also promised to reduce its carbon emissions and those of its clients. Chalk up another victory for environmentally and socially responsible finance...