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...sixth fellow will be Margaret Scammell, a lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool who also works as a freelance journalist in Britain...
Even the widely accepted notion that the Patriarchs were mythical figures has been challenged. Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen of the University of Liverpool offered what has been called an "extraordinary demonstration" in Biblical Archaeology Review earlier this year that the stories about Abraham are plausible. Drawing on nonbiblical records, Kitchen argued that everything from the quoted price of slaves to the style of warfare to the laws of inheritance in Abraham's day is amazingly consistent with the Bible accounts...
...music was ferocious and keen, but the Beatles made sure they were seen as decent boy-os from Liverpool. They worked fantastically hard--a concert in Hull, then drive down to London for a recording session and back home the same day for a radio interview. They appeared on all the popular TV variety shows, allowing the hosts to make genial mock of Beatlemania. The album underlines the band's close ties to mainstream British show biz. It was this grounding that helped them endure and enjoy their success with such amazing poise...
...trim, sprightly Rotblat has been a celebrity among antinuclear activists for nearly half a century. He first started wrestling with the moral implications of atomic weaponry as a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, working at the University of Liverpool in the early 1940s. "For me," he wrote in an article for the Hiroshima anniversary this past summer, "the decision to become involved in developing the Bomb was painful, and for almost a year I struggled with my conscience. Eventually I concluded, as did most of the other scientists, that we needed to make the Bomb so that it should...
...Awfully Big Adventure, directed by Mike Newell (Four Weddings) and adapted by Charles Wood from Beryl Bainbridge's novel, has the convincingly seedy look--almost the dank smell--of Liverpool after World War II. Even a visiting theater troupe seem tired and tatty under their gaudy makeup. With baths a luxury, the locals can afford only to dream. That, at least, is the route taken by young Stella (Georgina Cates, in an affecting star debut), who joins the troupe and falls in love with its dashing director (Grant). For Stella he's just the wrong person: homosexual, vicious, smooth...