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Frank Zindler, a Columbus, Ohio, biologist and biblical scholar, was furious after seeing the special. He had been asked to appear in a subsequent Sun International production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, which aired on CBS in May. Zindler backed out of his taping appointment and fired off a letter to CBS, calling the ark program "an attempt to show that modern science is wrong and Bronze Age mythology is correct." Earlier, Zindler began having qualms about his interview when he received instructions from Sun International revealing that "most of the pro-con arguments are pre-scripted...
KNOW-IT-ALLS ARE fond of pointing out that the only true Americans are the descendants of the diverse tribes found by Columbus and Cortes when they first arrived in the New World. That's wrong, of course. Even North and South American Indians had immigrants for ancestors: northeastern Asians who crossed from Siberia to Alaska in prehistoric times across the bridge of land that then spanned the Bering Strait...
...legislation designed to deal with hate also becomes harder to justify when applied to threats -- but not to acts -- of violence. One of those laws became an issue in a major Ohio case that grew out of a 1989 incident at a public campground near Columbus. A black camper, Jerry White, complained to a park ranger about loud music coming from the neighboring campsite of David Wyant, a white man. After the park ranger left, Wyant shouted threats to shoot the "niggers." He was eventually charged with and convicted of aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor. But because his threat fell under...
...provide house activities as a way for people doing all sorts of different things during the day to get together at night and be communally inane," says Eric R. Columbus '93, former house committee president...
Winthrop's easygoing attitude is part of its appeal, says Columbus. "I have friends at Adams House who come down to spend some stress-free time escaping the impressive, intellectual attitudes of Plympton Street...