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...government to U.S. demands put forward during ongoing negotiations over the more formal Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The SOFA would create a legal framework for a long-term U.S. troop presence in the country after the U.N. mandate expires in December. The sudden mention of a timetable - a concept aggressively supported by al-Maliki's rivals in the Sadrist movement - may have come as a shock to Washington...
...controversial tablet, dubbed "Gabriel's Revelation," dates back to several decades before Jesus's birth and announces the raising of the Messiah after three days in the grave. If correct, this places the concept of a Messiah's resurrection firmly within Jewish traditions of the day. These controversial speculations could have come out years earlier, but as the Swiss-Israeli collector sheepishly told TIME in Jerusalem, ""It's my fault that it took so long to be examined...
...model to work from. The idea of a "dying and rising messiah appears in some Jewish texts, but until now, everyone thought that was the impact of Christianity on Judaism," he says. "But for the first time, we have proof that it was the other way around. The concept was there before Jesus." If so, he goes on, "this should shake our basic view of Christianity. ... What happens in the New Testament [could have been] adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story...
...support they can get, and they should be integrated with peers so they can stay in school despite the huge responsibility of raising a child. Another reason to be integrated? So that peers who judge them, as Kingsbury seems to, will perhaps gain some empathy and embrace the concept of community. Anna Moore, CHICO, CALIF...
...modest Studio City bungalow where he fusses with a solar oven and plugs in his electric car. Self-deprecating and charmingly nerdy, Begley is no dilettante, having immersed himself in low-impact living long before anyone was devoting cable channels to it. Yes, the show's concept is hokey--Begley's Green Acres bickering with his less eco-minded wife--and it relies too heavily on star cameos. But at least Begley presents his choices as being about something bigger than generating his own solar-powered halo...