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Archaeologists in the Holy Land like to joke that their profession is vulnerable to a milder form of the syndrome. When scientists find a cracked, oversize skull in the Valley of Elah, it can be hard to resist the thought that it might have belonged to Goliath, or to imagine, while excavating the cellars of a Byzantine church, that the discovery of a few wooden splinters might be part of the cross on which Christ died. This milder malady is nothing new. In the mid-19th century, British explorers who came to Jerusalem with a shovel in one hand...
...lesser writer, a development like that would be enough to hang the rest of the novel on. You couldn't resist it: enter the charismatic, avuncular neurologist who patiently leads Tim back into the light, dispensing wisdom and learning some life lessons of his own along the way. Maybe he cures Tim. Maybe he runs off with Jane. Who knows? But none of that happens in The Unnamed. Instead, Jane throws the letter in the trash without even finishing it. That's how crushed her spirit is. Even the possibility of hope is too much for her to bear...
...This comes just months after Carr dismissed an initial $16.3 billion approach from Kraft as "derisory." But when Kraft sweetened the terms of a deal - by raising the amount of cash it was offering alongside its own shares - it proved too difficult for Cadbury to resist. At $13.91 per Cadbury share, a 7% premium over Friday's closing price, the new deal is expected to win shareholders' backing before the deadline for approval expires in two weeks. Buoyed by that prospect, shares in Cadbury rose more than 3% in trading on Monday, to $13.70. (See pictures of what the world...
...caused the crisis were missteps by management, sometimes even themselves, but not the result of faulty regulation. Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, told the panel, "After the shocks of recent months and the associated economic pain, there is a natural and appropriate desire for wholesale reform. We should resist a response, however, that is solely designed around protecting us from the 100-year storm." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...intricate kind of mimicry must be choreographed in arms reduction, requiring all sides to resist the urge to twitch as guns are lowered simultaneously, with parity maintained throughout. Nothing is easy. Yet State Department spokesman Darby Holladay told TIME that negotiators are making "significant progress" toward a START replacement. There may still be hope for a swift resolution to outstanding problems. (See a graphic of the nuclear world...