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...began badly for the team of American biblical scholars who had been granted a rare opportunity to examine and photograph a precious manuscript in Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book. Hunched over a swath of darkened and decomposing parchment with a powerful magnifying glass, they were barely able to discern a single letter. But that night, as they reviewed photo negatives still wet from the developing tank, their luck changed dramatically. Passages that had been invisible to the naked eye jumped out at them from the film. "It was a moment of exploding consciousness," recalls James Charlesworth, professor...
...That is the central question in a debate that has been raging since the publication last October of a new book on German Philosopher Martin Heidegger. The volume, Heidegger and Nazism, was written by Chilean Scholar Victor Farias and published in France after two West German houses rejected the manuscript. Although scholars have long known about Heidegger's early flirtation with National Socialism, he was generally thought to have become disenchanted with Hitler well before the outbreak of World War II. With new documentation, Farias charges that Heidegger, who died in 1976, was a lifelong anti-Semite and a devoted...
...congratulatory humbug, Congress completed work on a budget that should have been finished three months earlier. For the second straight year, the legislators tossed all 13 appropriations bills into a massive single "continuing resolution" without which the Government would clank to a halt. This year's 2,300-page manuscript kept company with a "reconciliation bill" that detailed the tax hikes and spending cuts decreed by a White House-Congress summit last November to cut the deficit by some $76 billion over two years. Despite its elephantine size, the final product may have but a mousy impact on a stock...
...price be put on the secrets of the universe? Sure, if the setting is Sotheby's Manhattan auction block. Last week a handwritten manuscript in which Albert Einstein laid out his "special" theory of relativity was sold to an unidentified bidder for $1.16 million -- a record for a manuscript at a U.S. auction...
Writer Larry Donner (Billy Crystal) involuntarily screams "Slut!" whenever anyone mentions his ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew). She stole his manuscript and is gleefully living off the fame and luxury the book's acclaim earned her. Donner loudly proclaims to anyone who will listen that he wants her dead. At the same time, he suffers from a writer's block so intense that he is unable to finish even the first sentence of his novel or make love to his girl-friend Beth, played with pretty, intelligent understatement by Kim Griest...