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...book listed positive and negative criteria employed before taking up the colored beads. The voters favored passages attested to by two or more sources. Since Jesus' culture was oral, not written, they assumed that shorter, punchier passages were more likely to be accurate. They also felt safer confirming idiosyncratic thoughts that ran against the social or religious grain of Jesus' day, involved role reversals or, in keeping with the style of the wandering wise men of the time, employed exaggeration, humor and concrete and vivid images. They preferred parables without explicit applications...
Proctor will be leaving his job in three weeks, a far shorter notice than most other top University officials have given. Even former provost Jerry R. Green, who resigned partially in disgust over Rudenstine's lack of focus and vision for the University, stayed on more than two months after he announced his departure...
...whole, Human has had a successful first term. His election opponent, Wesley B. Gilchrist '98, promised shorter meetings. Perhaps that would be a nice change for council members holed up in Harvard Hall late at night. But we're pleased to see a president interested in working hard to make the council relevant and effective to the student body...
...race for the Ivy League championship just got shorter for the Harvard women's basketball team. But for defending champion Dartmouth, the finish line is looking less and less hospitable by the minute...
Since the cause of many of those losses was erratic passing, Harvard coach Ihsan Gurdal moved sophomore setter Evan Beachy to the opposite position (left-side hitter) and moved co-captain Abbas Hyderi--usually a passing specialist--in control of the second hit. Hyderi, though shorter than Beachy, is quick enough to run down errant serve receives and set up the spikers...