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...excavations in Jerusalem are overseen by the IAA, and its director, ex-General Shuka Dorfman explained to TIME that while Elad manages and funds more than a dozen digs around Jerusalem, an IAA archaeologist is always on-site to analyze findings. Dorfman concedes that the settler organization's interpretation of its findings in Silwan "is different from ours." He adds: "They emphasize only the Jewish heritage." Sometimes, according to archaeologist Mizrahi, the Elad-sponsored digs ignore other strata of Jerusalem's multi-cultural history. "They're only focusing on one tradition - the Jewish one," he says...
...confirmed, Hakimullah's death would represent a major victory for both Washington and Islamabad. Pakistan's most wanted man had claimed responsibility for the Dec. 30 suicide bombing by a Jordanian triple agent who killed half a dozen CIA personnel on a base in Afghanistan's Khost province. He had also claimed credit for a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in Pakistan and the ongoing wave of violence across the country that has killed more than 600 people since October...
...Tonight, we're cheering for Algeria," a smuggler announces as a dozen Bedouin men settle into an arms smuggler's desert mansion to watch Egypt's African Cup of Nations soccer showdown with its fiercest rival. "If a war ever happens between Egypt and Israel, you'll find us taking up arms against the Egyptians," adds another smuggler, Ibrahim. The others concur...
...response to the limited number of programming options offered during the College’s inaugural January Term, the Undergraduate Council will collaborate with over a dozen student groups to create new on-and off-campus opportunities for next year...
Gibson and Washington weren't the only veteran movie men fighting for tickets at the wickets. Just out of this weekend's top dozen were two movies starring flinty hero types who made their names in the 1970s. Sixty-seven-year-old Harrison Ford, a.k.a. Han Solo, lent his sullen machismo to Extraordinary Measures, the first theatrical release from CBS Films - but this do-gooder drama had a made-for-TV feel, and after a cruddy opening week, it fell into the abyss, with a $2,575,000 weekend take in 2,549 theaters. The disease-of-the-week movie...