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Light, who holds a doctorate in decision theory from Harvard and is an expert in risk management, is being recruited to join Citigroup's board as part of the bank's drive to add people with financial expertise...
...what does it matter that Iran test-fired nine missiles Wednesday? "It's mostly relevant because of how it plays out in the campaign," says Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution. After a week of bad news, campaign restructuring and silly television spots, the missile tests are a boon for John McCain. Wednesday his campaign made hay with them, saying they showed Barack Obama's inexperience and the danger of his willingness to negotiate with Tehran. For his part, Obama tried to spin the tests to his advantage, saying they showed the Administration's policies were failing...
...original dealer was vague about the tablet's origin. But Jeselsohn, who is also an expert on East Mediterranean antiquities, says that the ink writing could only have survived for 2,000 years if it were kept in an extremely dry climate, possibly along the Jordanian shore of the Dead Sea. Most likely, says Jeselsohn, the tablet was considered sacred and displayed upright in a public area such as a synagogue...
After the purchase, Jeselsohn stashed the tablet in his Zurich home and moved on to other collectibles. Then, three years ago, he invited an Israeli scholar, Ada Yardeni, to Zurich to examine writings on ancient pottery shells. The expert's eye, however, was drawn instead to the tablet with its 87 lines of Hebrew script. "She was fascinated" says Jeselsohn. "Yardeni said the writing was just like on the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...fast, say some Christian academics. "It is certainly not perfectly clear that the tablet is talking about a crucified and risen savior figure called Simon," says Ben Witherington, an early-Christianity expert at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky. The verb that Knohl translates as "rise!," Witherington says, could also mean "there arose," and so one can ask "does it mean 'he comes to life,' i.e., a resurrection, or that he just 'shows up?' " Witherington also points out that gospel texts are far less reliant on the observed fact of the Resurrection (there is no angelic command in them like...