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...archaeologist may have failed to convince the world this year that she had uncovered the tomb of Alexander the Great in Egypt, but now another has clearly hit pay dirt. Today, French archaeologist Jean Leclant unveiled a previously unknown, 4,000-year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been...
...over again on hackneyed panorama shots and unconvincing, Hollywood-esque interiors. The few inspired angles on gray sky and barren hillsides only whet the viewer's appetite. Again, directorial detail work is evidenced in the all-too-fake sets of bad teeth and in the caked-on facial dirt (Make-up #57): "Psst! This is the eighteenth century...
Burnham said the leaks were "an effort to essentially throw dirt on Gina Grant. After having done the wrong thing by rejecting her, the University is now trying to cover its tracks by throwing dirt in her direction...
...live underground. They said, "We're going to try to tell a few people about who we are, and we heard that you were trying out to be a FOP leader. We really like FOP. We think it's a good thing that you're getting out into the dirt. May be you could teach your interviewers about the Sandhogs." They're sort of militant hogs. so you've got to be careful with them. The Sandhogs eat, and they wallow, but on top of that, they have spiritual nourishment, and that is in the form of funk music...
Keeping incidents quiet provides an offender with a second chance, an opportunity to repent and mend his ways without attracting the scorn of the rest of the student body. Finally, the unavailability of "dirt" on other students ensures that political campaigns and heated debates do not sink beyond a certain level of decency. What do you think the U.C. presidential election would look like if, say, Randall A. Fine '96 had access to potentially embarrassing information about his opponents' pasts...