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...addition, Brown University President Vartan Gregorian presented Bok with a commemorative scroll signed by the presidents of the Ivy League colleges...
Pork-Barrel Lifetime Achievement Scroll: ROBERT BYRD This senior Democrat really knows how to deliver the bacon. Chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, he lately had two federal agencies moved to his home state of West Virginia...
Late last year, John Strugnell, a Harvard Divinity School professor, was thrust into the spotlight when he was removed as chief of the team editing the Dead Sea Scrolls after making anti-Semitic remarks to an Israeli newspaper. In the recent issue of the Biblibcal Archaeological Review, there appears a glib bio of Strugnell under the heading "Major Players" in the Scroll project. Strangely enough, the author can't seem to decide whether he loves or hates the man he describes as a manic-depressive, alcoholic anti-Semite...
John Strugnell. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Professor of Christian origins at Harvard Divinity School. Never wrote a book. A wonderful teacher. A generous, caring mentor. An original member of the scroll editing team, appointed in 1953 at age 23. Since 1987, chief editor of the scroll editing team. An alcoholic. A manic-depressive. An anti-Semite. Rabidly anti-Israel. Warm and friendly to individual Jews and Israelis. Beloved by many of his students; others regard him as arrogant. Does not suffer fools gladly. Recently removed from his post as chief editor. Remains in control of a substantial hoard of unpublished texts...
TOMORROW is the Jewish holiday of Purim. As recorded in the biblical scroll of Esther, the holiday celebrates the victory of the Jews over a descendant of Agag's, Haman, who tried to destroy them. The story--to be read tonight--includes a bloody turn of events that is another instance of Jews' "doing the right thing" for the sake of God's law, but taking actions opposed to liberal moral...