Word: shepherd
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...UConn’s denials seem unconvincing in light of the fact that Huskies coaches had some 1,565 different phone calls or texts with Nochimson during and after Miles’ recruitment. ESPN later reported that Nochimson may have helped shepherd another UConn recruit, Ater Majok, on his way to Storrs...
...simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly improvisational Cape Jazz) and more than its fair share of musical talent - ranging from greats like Abdullah Ibrahim and Robbie Jansen to young impresarios like Kyle Shepherd and Jonathan Rubain - serious performance venues can be frustratingly sparse...
...University, claims that the Essenes were a fabrication by the 1st century A.D. Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus and that his faulty reporting was passed on as fact throughout the centuries. As Elior explains, the Essenes make no mention of themselves in the 900 scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947 in the caves of Qumran, near the Dead Sea. "Sixty years of research have been wasted trying to find the Essenes in the scrolls," Elior tells TIME. "But they didn't exist. This is legend on a legend." (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...nation of Gilboa, led by King Silas Benjamin (Ian McShane) - based on the Bible's Saul - has been at war for generations, most recently with neighboring Gath. His son Jack (Sebastian Stan) is taken hostage at the front but is rescued by David Shepherd (Chris Egan), who destroys a supposedly invincible Gath tank - a "Goliath," natch - by slinging a grenade duct-taped to a wrench. David is called to court in the gleaming new capital, Shiloh, where the cunning Silas parades him as a hero and eyes him as a potential rival...
...known as both a fierce negotiator and a creative problem solver who helped shepherd the steel industry through a painful transition period. His knowledge of the financing, as well as the labor, side of negotiations is thought to be the reason Obama tapped him to be an adviser on auto issues...