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...committee would have to be established to look into the proposal in more detail, Nye said. The faculty committee would determine what form the concentration would take, he said...
...archaeologist Bryant Wood, writing in the March/April issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, claims that Kenyon was wrong. Based on a re-evaluation of her research, which was published in detail only recently, Wood says that the city's walls could have come tumbling down at just the right time to match the biblical account. While that does not prove that the event happened, it does give plausibility to the Old Testament version...
...look closely, and then closer still, you will understand why each piece took so long to complete. The attention to detail is incredible. The artists, equipped with kitten hair paintbrushes, individually drew every hair in the brow of every two-inch high prince, and captured the expressions of every tiny servant that populated every prince's palace...
Decentralization and labor relations "require care, attention to detail, careful planning, and imagination, and Bob has all of those qualities," Scott said...
Obviously rushed into print, Barbarians is rich in detail and anecdote but poor in analysis, often reading like 100 Wall Street Journal articles pasted end to end. After a forced march through the history of the RJR fight, the narrative ends on a question that should have been raised -- and wrestled with -- from the start: "What did all this have to do with doing business...