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...meeting payrolls, raising families, giving to charity and shooting the occasional spotted owl--all activities that were completely unknown to me and my neighbors back in Chevy Chase, Maryland. True, I haven't actually seen a spotted owl yet, even though I've already been living in the Pacific Northwest for more than 72 hours. They clearly don't exist. Which just goes to show how ridiculous it is for Beltway busybodies to interfere in matters they obviously know nothing about...
...first, the Israelis who excavated the newly uncovered cave by the highway thought they'd found just that sort of evidence. Inside the rocky opening, located about 20 miles northwest of Jerusalem, were 23 burial containers filled with bones. A hasty analysis seemed to show that letters on one stone box spelled out part of the name Hasmonean, a family of Jewish patriots, also known as the Maccabees, whose encounter with a miraculous oil lamp is now celebrated in the lighting of Hannukah candles...
...case remains circumstantial. There's no Egyptian record of the Israelites' departure, they suggest, because the losers would never have recorded such a major defeat. People may have been looking in the wrong part of the Sinai for remains of the Israelites' wandering, or perhaps the Israelis were in northwest Arabia all along. Anyway, say many scholars, what nation would falsely claim to have been enslaved...
...These neighborhoods are especially vulnerable with the end of rent control. Because of their proximity to Harvard Square and to Harvard, rents in these neighborhoods have as much as doubled," said Preston, whose organization represents the neighborhoods immediately northwest of Harvard...
...Americans had tried to find some sparsely settled spots in Croat areas. That set off one of the worst tussles, over the so-called Posavina corridor, the narrow strip in the north, at the top of the map of Bosnia, that links Serb holdings in the northwest of the country with those in the east. Milosevic continued to seek a wider corridor. But Tudjman balked at handing over the parts held by Bosnian Croats as compensation for Serb losses elsewhere. This time Bill Clinton had to step in. He phoned Tudjman and, without getting into the geography, told the Croat...