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...David’s faith is bizarrely pragmatic. When another of his children falls ill, David refuses to eat and prays for a week straight, yet at news of the child’s death, David heads right inside for a meal. The king offers his puzzled servants the curt explanation, “I shall go to [my son], but he shall not return to me.” The more we see of Israel’s fabled king, the less of him we understand...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BookEnds: Pinsky Breathes Life Into Israelite King | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

However, waiter Curt Gilbert opined that Legal should have occupied not one, but 31 spots on the list. After all, “all 31 locations are different...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mayan Ruins, the Eiffel Tower, And—Baked Cod? | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...Bush Administration for failing to address publicly claims that the panel ignored a tip that Atta had been flagged in the U.S. as a terrorist well before he led the 2001 attacks. Former chairman Tom Kean told TIME that the White House should confirm whether, right after 9/11, Congressman Curt Weldon handed then Deputy National Security Adviser Steven Hadley a 1999 Pentagon chart pegging Atta as a member of al-Qaeda. Weldon makes the allegation in a book he published this summer and claims the commission failed to scrutinize a Pentagon data-mining program called "Able Danger." "I'm offended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Mohammed Atta Overlooked? | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

Just how damning are allegations by Congressman Curt Weldon that a secret Pentagon intelligence operation pegged hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat nearly two years before he led the 9/11 attacks? When Weldon first made the charge in a new book and in a June speech on the House floor, it met with little attention, but perhaps due to the August heat or the approaching fourth anniversary of the attacks, the accusation ignited controversy last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Mohammed Atta Overlooked? | 8/14/2005 | See Source »

...said one BLOHARD, ?It seemed like Curt Gowdy played that every inning. It seemed like it was the only commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the BLOHARDS | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

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