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...extraordinary story of how Israeli detectives built a case against Golan and his alleged cohorts is the subject of Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh, a former TIME staffer who now writes for People. In fast, noir-ish prose - imagine Sam Spade in the Holy Land - Burleigh tracks her story through the twilight world of Arab grave robbers and smugglers to the glimmering salon of a billionaire collector in Mayfair whose mission, writes Burleigh, is "proving the Bible true." Past accounts of the James ossuary are fiercely partisan, written...
...Woods, 79, Missouri politician whose relentless campaigning and razor-thin loss in a 1982 bid for the U.S. Senate, despite being overwhelmingly outspent, inspired the creation of the grass-roots fund-raising group Emily's List; of leukemia; in University City, Mo. Woods won the Democratic nomination over banker Burleigh Arnold, who had the backing of party leadership. Her high-profile candidacy, which culminated in a loss to John Danforth by 26,247 votes, sparked Emily's List--short for Early Money Is Like Yeast--which in the last election cycle raised $46 million for women candidates nationwide...
...With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett and Nina Burleigh/ Washington, Paul Krueger/San Diego and Richard Woodbury/Denver
Between 8 and 9:30 p.m., Dawn Burleigh will cover the breaks of other shuttle drivers; between 10 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. she will join a fleet of two other vans in the on-call van service; and between 12:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., she will provide extended-hours service. In the past, shuttle service was interrupted at various times on all routes because of union contracts which stipulate a mandatory 30-minute “lunch break” in the middle of shifts. The breaks in shuttle service occurred between...
Though UOS hired Burleigh to eliminate service interruptions earlier in the evening, the driver will also provide late night shuttle service on a 90-day trial basis. “It covers the gaps and it will increase shuttle service until 4am,” said McLoughlin. “In many ways it made sense.” Additionally, the hiring of a new driver allows UOS to provide more services without having to pay other drivers overtime...