Word: confirmed
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...happened." The pilots, Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lt. Jose Souvignet, were beaten and kicked by Serb soldiers from the moment they were first taken captive on August 30. In prison the beatings continued and the pilots were subjected to mock executions. "No other news organization has been able to confirm this yet," says Crumley, "but the paper has a reputation for getting scoops...
...Foxwell Albright appeared on the scene. A professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins and the son of a Methodist missionary, he took a much more scientific approach than most of his predecessors. Rather than assume that the Bible was either entirely accurate or completely fictional, he attempted to confirm Old Testament stories with independent archaeological evidence. And under his considerable influence, biblical archaeology finally became a disciplined and scientific enterprise...
Having seen science confirm the Bible in some instances and tear it down in others, most scholars have edged toward a middle-of-the-road position. As the Biblical Archaeology Review's Shanks puts it, "You can't look at the text literally. It wasn't written as modern history is written. But on the other hand, it's certainly not made...
...appointment of a new Assistant Dean and a new faculty-student committee confirm the high value that Harvard College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences place on the many kinds of voluntary services conducted by our undergraduates...
...Rabin felt the gun before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv, the leader of the extremist Eyal movement and alleged informer, himself denies it, details of his clandestine employment have been flooding the Israeli press. Sources say the 28-year-old Raviv was on Shin Bet's payroll for nearly eight years, during which...