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There are eight automatic berths to the NCAA tournament and eight at-large berths. Three of the at-large berths are destined to go to the ACC (Wake Forest, Maryland, and Duke) and two are certain to go to the Big Ten (Michigan and Penn State). That leaves three berths for bubble teams...
...immediately suggests [this Jesus] was somebody important," says Ben Witherington III, a New Testament specialist at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky who is co-authoring, with Shanks, a book on the ossuary. Granted, there needs to be "some semblance of caution," says Eric Meyers, professor of Judaic studies at Duke University who has published on ossuaries. The combination of the three names could be simply a coincidence. "But there is a strong possibility that the artifact is what Lemaire says it is: the oldest extra-biblical archaeological evidence of Jesus...
...However, in the wake of Sept. 11, there have also been acts of violence and intimidation directed at Muslim students and Arabs. I would be happier if this statement were more inclusive.” Moeser was not alone in his concern. From Boston College to Duke University, presidents from across the country filed their dissent. One of the original framers of the letter, Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow, raised his concerns about the letter’s imbalance and eventually decided not to sign the final version because he said it was “cast too narrowly...
...refrain that has been repeated on these pages ad nauseum (this columnist is among the guilty). Instead, the question is posed to those people who ordinarily would be attracted to college sports, those who would go to games if they went to their state schools or Stanford or Duke: Do you know what you’re missing...
...attendance in Harvard sports lies in the would-be fans who don’t appreciate what’s available. Ivy League athletics are just a notch above Pee-Wee athletics in the minds of would-be Harvard fans who grow up watching Notre Dame football and Duke hoops...