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...Sinai, the Sea of Reeds (mistranslated as the Red Sea) has been located at various sites all over the Middle East. A current scholarly favorite is Lake Sirbonis (now called Sabkhet el Bardowil), a Mediterranean lagoon on the northeastern shore of the Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down of the Egyptian...
...Prince of Egypt is a grand experiment, a crusade to expand the frustratingly narrow boundaries of feature animation. The film and its laborious making are, finally, a bit like the Moses story: each is an illuminating adventure that stops just short of its own Promised Land...
Burleigh said the Register and other media sources "have not been fair" in playing up the fact that police questioned Van De Velde twice, noting that it is standard procedure for police to question a variety of people several times as they narrow their investigation...
While we are in favor of using racial preferences as one factor in school admissions, the Boston Latin standard--which admits 50 percent of its class solely on grades and test scores and the other 50 percent on race, grades and test scores--is too narrow. Though the system admirably attempts to create a diverse class, it excessively compromises standards of fairness which the Boston lower courts have repeatedly recognized...
Furthermore, past experience with the Supreme Court shows the high court would most likely not hear the case at all or rule against such a narrow conception of diversity. Given the potential significance of a ruling in this arena, it is both dangerous and unwise for the Boston School Committee to pursue this appeal. Instead, we would urge the school district to formulate an alternative admissions plan which, if challenged, would make a more favorable test case for standards of diversity in secondary education...