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Doubtless, Kenyan native Lameck Aguta, who finished the race with a time 2:10:34 to win the men's field, Ethiopian Fatuma Roba, who won the women's race with time of 2:26:24, and the handful of other elite runners that crossed the finish line in under two and a half hours were the stars of yesterday's 101st Boston Marathon...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aguta, Roba Win Marathon | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

...code. When the bill comes up for a formal vote, perhaps at Parliament's session next June, it is virtually certain to be enacted. The ladies of Tanzania did not accept defeat gracefully. "Let the men marry as many wives as they please," shrugged Lucy Lameck, the Member of Parliament from Kilimanjaro Central. "They will come to realize that they are doing more harm than good to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanzania: The Ties that Bind | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Book of Lameck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery of Aramaic Scroll May Reveal Biblical Mystery | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

According to Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, the scroll is believed to be the prophetic Book of Lameck, a primitive patriarch, mentioned in the fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis. The prophet's inscription was identified in the first few lines of the parchment by William F. Albright, professor of Semantics at Johns Hopkins University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery of Aramaic Scroll May Reveal Biblical Mystery | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...four parchments brought to America six months ago by the Assyrian Archbishop, the Lameck scroll is the only one of the group written in the almost forgotten language of Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery of Aramaic Scroll May Reveal Biblical Mystery | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

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