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...masterful job--and a heroic one, with TV cameras focused on the blood seeping through his sock. It was so gory, it might have been an episode of CSI: Curt Schilling's Incision. After the game, though, someone discarded Schilling's blood-red sock, potentially the most treasured relic since Veronica's veil. It could have netted a bundle on eBay...
...Labor won federal office in 1983 it kept its election promise to stop the project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock, the roar of the rapids lost behind us. Extraordinarily sharp reflections look etched on the surface of the cold water, which is thought...
...examined whether the case still stacked up - a lapse about which Butler said only, "We have recorded our surprise." Blair said he "accepted full personal responsibility ? for any errors that were made," but he didn't apologize. The notion of resigning over such grand mistakes now seems a quaint relic of a different constitutional era. Instead, Blair renovated his case for war, telling M.P.s it was good to get rid of Saddam in any event. Are people buying his argument? In two by-elections last week, Labour lost one safe seat and nearly lost another - not to the opposition Conservatives...
Before Pusey took office, the future of the Divinity School had been uncertain, as the increased emphasis on preserving Harvard’s non-sectarian identity and devoting resources to scientific study had led some of the University’s leaders to wonder if the school was a relic of the past that should be eliminated...
...never exposed. In contrast, students are reminded on a daily basis of the celebrated history of Harvard men—portraits, statues, names of buildings and other iconography laud nearly four centuries of male success at Harvard. Yet, at the same time, the Radcliffe name is becoming a relic recognized only by some female athletes and history buffs...