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...experts disagree on just about everything. At one pole in this scholarly version of Crossfire is the group known as the maximalists, who consider the Bible a legitimate guidebook for archaeological research. At the other are the minimalists, or biblical nihilists, who believe the Bible is a religious document and thus can't be read as any sort of objective account. "They say of Bible material, 'If it cannot be proved to be historical it's not historical,' " explains Frank Moore Cross, professor emeritus of Oriental languages at Harvard, who puts himself somewhere in the middle...
...what sort of peace have the Bosnians, Croatians and Serbs actually agreed? According to TIME's James Graff, the 19-page treaty signed in Paris on Thursday is a straightforward document that addresses anything-but-straightforward issues. Despite deep enmities, the parties have committed themselves to abide by "annexes" that fill more than 150 pages of typescript, and range from vague promises to "make strenuous efforts to cooperate with each other" to constructing a Rube Goldberg government with a bicameral legislature and a three-person executive presidency. "There's been a very obvious demonstration of the difficulties to come...
This project (including removal of Carey Cage) was identified in Harvard's master planning and fundraising documents developed during the mid-1970s. More importantly, in 1989 it was described in Harvard's Allston Campus Master Plan, a widely-circulated public document prepared in coordination with numerous City officials and local neighborhood representatives. This Master Plan continues to be used by Harvard and the City of Boston in guiding the planning and development of the Allston campus...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich found himself in the middle of a new ethics controversy after the Federal Election Commission released internal papers from GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich once headed. The FEC charged that the documents--filed in a lawsuit against GOPAC--indicate the group improperly subsidized Gingrich's 1990 campaign, in which he narrowly won re-election. One document, a transcript of a gopac meeting, refers to ''a quarter of a million dollars in 'Newt support.'" The Speaker denounced the accusations as "totally phony...
...event that a technician inadvertently leaves a document in a subject's room, all paperwork is labelled with a "lab time" that disguises the actual time and does not rely on a.m. and p.m. distinctions...