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...Early descriptions of the Essenes by Greek and Roman historians has them numbering in the thousands, living communally ("The first kibbutz," jokes Elior) and forsaking sex - which goes against the Judaic exhortation to "go forth and multiply." Says Elior: "It doesn't make sense that you have thousands of people living against the Jewish law and there's no mention of them in any of the Jewish texts and sources of that period." (Read "Is This Jesus's Tomb...
...Harvard began a four-point comeback, with a service ace from junior Erik Kuld to make it 16-12. The Tigers then posted three more points, but the Crimson scored the next nine points to take the lead at 21-19. Control of the advantage then went back and forth for the next 11 serves until the Tigers posted two kills to take the stanza, 33-31. “They really closed out every set,” Weissbourd said. “We would open strong, but they pulled away at the end of every...
...question him, in tandem with the Iraqis. A television played a muted Arabic melodrama in the corner. The young man denied everything. His eyes darted, periodically, to a length of rubber tubing leaning against Karim's desk. As the questioning continued, the Iraqis occasionally passed the tubing back and forth, and one of them whispered something in the young...
...come up with the lyrics first and say, "I'm writing a song about this"? Yeah. We all live in different cities, so what we'll do is, I'll e-mail them lyrics, and we'll send MP3s back and forth and eventually get together. It's cool, 'cause I've done this with quite a few people now. I'm doing it with Tegan and Sara, with the New Pornographers, with Grant-Lee Phillips, Jill Sobule, Jon Brion - it's huge. There are a lot of songs - I think it's going to be a double or triple...
...Sibilski took a similar path to triumph. Taking the first set 6-3 and losing the next 6-1, she likewise broke her opponent to make the set 5-5 in a back-and-forth game that featured two match points for the Eagles...