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...Scholars are not working more speculatively because Dan Brown made money. His success allows them to write profitably from their adventurous hearts. Mark Tauber, vice president of HarperSanFrancisco, which publishes many of them (HSF did Family Tomb), notes that these academics came of age during the translation of the Nag Hammadi "library" and the Dead Sea Scrolls, troves that opened a window to unorthodox faith during and after Jesus' life that the Bible and church fathers only hinted at or condemned. The authors can now transmit that vision to a Da Vinci--primed public. Says HSF editorial director Michael Maudlin...
Please do not think me uncompromising—I do firmly believe that the Core Curriculum needs one hell of a makeover. And, unlike some complainers who do nothing but nag but can never be satisfied, I have a solution. We need our education to promote important life skills...
Khoury also injects as much early Christian history as possible, name-dropping the Gnostic gospels discovered at Nag Hammadi every couple of pages...
...than Housman, because he entered the season with much higher expectations.Beal also started the season on a tear, but has since cooled off. The 6’4 swingman has had a history of knee problems, and there is always a question of whether that injury has continued to nag him throughout his college career.Grade: A-BENCHThe 61-48 Harvard win at Albany with two starters out, and the Crimson’s three-game winning streak without its highly-touted center both speak to the quality of the bench play this season.The frontcourt trio mentioned previously as well...
...father would nag Nabokov about his lack of progress on his first professional translation. “A long-suffering, occasionally snow-sprinkled copy of the Russian book sometimes lay for days on the seat of my permanently topless MG-TC,” Nabokov writes, referring to his classic roadster. “Father, when he happened upon the car parked on a nearby street, would meticulously record the page to which the book was opened, and confront me in the evening with my lamentable lack of progress...