Word: proof
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...first time, it appeared, there was physical proof that this legendary family, known only from the words of the Apocrypha, actually existed. The discovery, announced last month, set off an international wave of excitement (and protests from ultra-Orthodox Jews, who believe that any tampering with human remains violates Jewish law). Then, two weeks ago, came disappointing word from the Israeli Antiquities Authority: the letters on the crypt had been misinterpreted. There is no reason to believe these were the bones of the Maccabees after...
...Egypt, the existence of Moses, the Exodus and Joshua's military conquest of the Holy Land. The Bible's accounts of these people and events are among the most familiar stories in the Old Testament. But even scholars who believe they really happened admit that there's no proof whatsoever that the Exodus took place. No record of this monumental event appears in Egyptian chronicles of the time, and Israeli archaeologists combing the Sinai during intense searches from 1967 to 1982 - years when Israel occupied the peninsula - didn't find a single piece of evidence backing the Israelites' supposed...
...other possible rationale for near-unanimous Republican support is that conservatives know better but are caving into political considerations. There's no proof of this, but who could blame them. Minutes after the vote, the Citizens Flag Alliance, the coalition of 100 lobbying groups promoting the flag-burning amendment, sent out a press-release stating only. "See you in November." Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee warned. "The amendment is not going to go away," and tied its failure to opposition from President Clinton. Hatch vows to bring it up again in the next Congress...
...Here at Harvard we aren't very comfortable with the idea of failure either, since so many of us have very little experience with it.) There is a great hypocrisy in requiring annulment for remarriage within the Church, since powerful, well-connected people can obtain annulments even without any proof that no marriage ever existed...
What should be done in cases where clear proof of marriage does exist? Couples who were forced to marry at gunpoint have living proof of consummation. They would have a much more difficult time procuring an annulment. If they discover that they can not stand each other, over time they will come to resent this child who binds them together. Do man, woman or child deserve to suffer so greatly for a mistake one night in the back of a car? Surely, you cannot blame the child, but it is the child who may be hurt the most...