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After reading his column, third-year law student Tammy Pettinato said she was “horrified.” “The Vie Society doesn’t just hail the end of HLS feminism—it dances on its grave in spike-heeled shoes,” she wrote in an e-mail...
What’s their deal? Hicks and Pettinato charge the society makes a mockery of women in law, reinforcing a kind of Elle Woods image they’d rather shake...
...Russia, Igor Ugolnikov, host of a popular late-night show, Good Evening, appears on a set modeled after Letterman's (a nighttime view of Moscow in the background), banters with his bandleader and keeps a mug full of pencils on his desk. In Argentina, Roberto Pettinato is host of Duro de Acostar (roughly translated, Sleep Hard, a play on Duro de Matar, the Spanish title for Die Hard), which features yet another bantering bandleader, city backdrop and, in a variant on Letterman's trademark, a nightly Top 5 list. Dan Borge Akero, host of Norway's RiksDan, used...
Professor of Assyriology Giovanni Pettinato was mystified by the writings. Cuneiform is, after all, not a language, only a style of writing. While the epigraphist could recognize the characters, some of them formed words of a language he had never encountered. Pettinato pondered photographs of the tablets for three months, then cracked the code. Sumerian characters had been used to write an early Western Semitic tongue he dubbed "Eblaite." On other tablets, straight Sumerian was written, functioning as an official language, as Latin did in medieval Europe...
...listed 70 names of animals; another, 260 ancient cities not yet known to historians. Still another was a breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...