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Eaves fractured his C-5 vertebra and will be out of action for a minimum of six weeks. Although he will require a brace to immobilize his neck, Eaves is expected to make a full recovery...
Certain challenges associated with hosting the convention remain to be met, although city officials should be applauded for promptly addressing the great amount of work that lies ahead. Security in the wake of Sept. 11, for instance, will significantly increase municipal costs. Furthermore, the city must brace for thousands of protesters who will inundate Boston as they did Los Angeles and Philadelphia in 2000. Boston’s convention planners have already secured $20 million of the roughly $50 million in estimated expenses. Another $12.5 million is expected to come from private donations. The remaining $17.5 million must come from...
...Democrats in general suffered a tough blow on Tuesday. We now need to brace for next two years with Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency,” he said. “It’s going to require that we stay vigilant, educating not just the country but more specifically students on campus about the issues...
What these people miss, though, is that the Yale admissions office compensates for this apparent discrepancy in achievement by the fact it far exceeds Harvard in its yield on early admits. Brace yourself for this unbelievable statistic: last year Yale enrolled 100 percent, yes, 100 percent, of the students it admits in its early decision program, compared with Harvard’s paltry 90 percent early yield. And I have no doubt that next year when Yale stops forcing its early admits to attend, all of them will still choose Yale as their first choice—I mean...
Almost no educated person these days doubts that Jesus lived. Some accept it on faith, others on the testimony of a brace of ancient chroniclers, both Christian and Roman. Yet there is something uniquely compelling about an attestation in stone. As Lemaire explained to TIME, "The written word is a bit airy. Listen, you can talk about Egyptian civilization, but the day you visit the pyramids, it speaks to you in a different way." Or as Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, says of the ossuary, "It is something tactile and visible reaching back to the single most...