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When last we saw the lost Ark of the Covenant in action, it had been dug up by Indiana Jones in Egypt and ark-napped by Nazis, whom the Ark proceeded to incinerate amidst a tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real-life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container for the original Ark), to a dusty bottom shelf in a museum in Harare, Zimbabwe...
...public and to specialists for study. Cuno suggests the establishment of an outside advisory panel that could rule on whether an object is so significant that a museum could acquire it even if its papers are not in order, so long as there is no evidence that it was dug up during the period covered by the source nation's cultural-property laws. "We can't just have a policy that prohibits those acquisitions," he says. "We've got to exercise informed reasonable judgment...
...with just 3:29 to play, time ran out on the Crimson’s run.“I thought we gave great energy to try to scratch and claw to get back in it,” Amaker said. “But we dug ourselves too big of a hole.”Evan Harris had a career night for Harvard. The junior forward finished with a career-high 23 points on 11-of-14 from the foul line. He also grabbed six rebounds, but finished with six turnovers.“Luckily my teammates were just...
...percent from the floor and logged one assist against eight turnovers, while Brown converted field goals at a 56 percent clip. The team’s youngsters, most notably Blankenau and Fitzgerald, helped to keep the deficit in the 20-point range down the stretch. “We dug ourselves a deep hole—I was pleased with the kids who played part of the minutes in the second half,” Amaker said. “I thought they battled and competed and showed some life and some signs of valuing their playing time...
...fired a shot into the opposite corner of the net.“We were really, I think, starting to take over the game, and we take a penalty that turns the game to 2-1, they got a bad goal to make it 3-1, and we dug ourselves another hole,” Donato said. “Every team in this league has enough talent to take advantage of chances, and I give Brown a lot of credit tonight.”After the Bears struck again at the start of the third period to extend...