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Holy Relics? Your "letter box" article mentions an ongoing effort to prove the existence of Jesus [Nov 24]. But the issue of whether Jesus was a real person has rarely been seriously challenged in modern times; instead what has been in constant debate is whether what we "know" about him from the Scriptures bears much resemblance to the truth, or whether the New Testament story is mostly a fabrication created by the early Church. Believers' fascination with relics might make for an interesting study in human nature, but - another discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls significance excepted - relics cannot shed much...
...deans’ letter re-confirmed Smith’s earlier commitment to maintaining a system of tenure-track promotion, and left open the possibility for a “small number of exceptions” to the ruling against tenure-track searches—a hint of flexibility that some professors said yesterday was encouraging...
Several professors, including Edwards, indicated yesterday that they had not yet read the letter, but that they were not taken aback by the measures it outlined, given the extent of the financial crisis...
Harvard’s endowment—the largest in higher education—fell 22 percent in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, trumping the previous record loss of 12.4 percent in 1974, according to a letter from University President Drew G. Faust last week...
...being investigated. "His temporary yielding of the gavel is an urgent necessity for a Democratic Congress elected two years ago on promises of an ethical housecleaning," the New York Times editorialized in September. Earlier this week, after the paper published even more serious allegations, Rangel wrote a scathing letter to the editor denying that he had done anything improper with regard to the loophole that rewarded Nabors Industries and its CEO, Eugene Isenberg, who had given the $1 million donation to CCNY. He also contended that New York Times reporter David Kocieniewski had ignored the facts of the matter...