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...context weakened. Could even the Sistine Chapel remain the same in our eyes if we were suddenly informed that there had never been a Michelangelo clinging to the ceiling to paint it? That it was actually the work of some Renaissance craftsman whose name and circumstances were unfortunately unknown...
Following a series of events in which almost none of the facts are clear, it is still unknown which Ivy League institution is responsible for the prank. Even officials at the Daily Princetonian disagree as to whether the whole thing was funny and embarassing...
...Sunday, The New York Times reported that Gary L. Taylor, a 32-year-old scholar from Topeka, Kan., discovered a previously unknown nine-stanza Shakespeare poem while looking through old volumes at Oxford University in England...
Harvard, by contrast, has at least one clear motive for gagging all parties to the Trowbridge case. By paying Trowbridge an unknown sum, Harvard bought itself protection against a group of potentially troublesome tenants at the Craigie Arms...
...motive for both the killing and the suicide is unknown, but acquaintances of the Mabwas said the couple's marital problems might have been involved. Each of the Mabwas had separately filed for divorce, and the hearing was scheduled for the day following the murder, according to the Daily Northwestern...