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...Jesus' burial cloth, its keepers elected to allow one more test. They distributed small samples to three laboratories for radiocarbon dating. Several months later, the labs revealed their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote, "It seemed that anyone who had previously upheld any serious case for the shroud's credibility...had been dealt a fatal stab to the heart...
...devout Orioles fan, and general Baltimore enthusiast, I would like to clarify a few things regarding the recent controversy over the "Hit 'em where they ain't" quotation printed as a caption in The Crimson (Sports, April 1). First, I was angered at the time of the printing because the caption mistakenly associates the quotation with the Boston Red Sox (two ex-Red Sox players were pictured). But second and more importantly, Eli B. Richlin '01 wrote a letter (April 3) in which he attributed the now famous quotation to Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese...
Leave it to the Coen brothers to make a movie about a wise-cracking, pot-smoking, unemployed bowling enthusiast who goes to the grocery store in his bathrobe to write a check for 69 cents...
...really neat to see huge solar system bodies crossing each other," said Benjamin D. Oppenheimer '99, an astronomy enthusiast at the viewing...
Louise E. Donovan, Bunting-Smith's former executive assistant of 12 years, said the former Radcliffe president was an outdoors enthusiast...