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Harvard also got stung by the turnover bugagain, giving the ball away 17 times after doingit 20 times against Boston University. Fisher ledthe sin list with five...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colgate Brushes by M. Hoops | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...thing. Astoundingly, God backs down. Moses returns to camp and, seeing the calf himself for the first time, smashes the tablets and has 3,000 of the idolatrous revelers killed. He then returns to God and shows an immense and compassionate courage: "Now, if you will forgive their sin [well and good]; but if not, erase me from the record which you have written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...join against" their now 119-year-old leader. As before, God advises Moses, telling him to gather the people with his staff and "order the rock to yield its water." As he has done previously, Moses strikes the rock with his rod and out flows the water. His sin, as best as anyone can determine, is that he struck rather than spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...seems the most hairsplitting of technicalities. In Moses: A Life, Kirsch writes, "Against the blow of a wooden staff upon a dry rock, a lifetime of struggle, hardship and faithful service counted for nothing." Some analysts think biblical editors expunged Moses' real sin, whatever it was. Others say his only sin is failure, his inability to ennoble the slave generation. Not so fast, argues Friedman: Moses has been edging toward usurping God's prerogatives for some time, "and now he steps over the line. He changes a miracle. Nobody had ever done that before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...forth and sin no more. The court could start by undoing Microsoft's past bad acts--striking down its coercive contracts with other companies and forcing it to unbundle the Internet Explorer browser that it has built into its Windows operating system. Judge Jackson could then spell out what Microsoft can and can't do in the future. He could personally monitor Microsoft's behavior, much as Judge Harold Greene oversaw AT&T for more than a decade after the breakup of the phone company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Gates Loses, Then What? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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