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...given the preponderance of humoramong scientists, is the 'nerd' stereotypebreaking down? The verdict is divided...
...Harvard's verdict notwithstanding, serious questions remain. When questioning Ntshanga, the police asked for his Harvard I.D., which he did not have. They then allowed him to call a friend, who Ntshanga hoped could find his I.D. When the friend was unable to, the police promptly arrested Ntshanga and took him to a holding cell in the Middlesex County jail...
...When Daniels held out, the remaining jurors, impatient to get home for Mother's Day, decided to tell the judge that the vote was unanimous. Daniels said she was so terrified of getting into trouble for her intransigence that she answered yes when the jurors were polled on their verdict...
Kaufman, the tenants' union official, notedthat there was not mention of Walsh during lastMonday's city council meeting--held less just 90minutes after the verdict...
Other Jewish writers doubt the Sanhedrin trial occurred at all. For example, the nighttime hearing and the rushed verdict described in the New Testament violate religious law. But Brown says there is no reason to suppose that Jews of A.D. 30 would have strictly observed procedures not codified until two centuries later in the Mishnah, the rabbinical collation of oral law interpreting the Bible. As for those who think the Romans would not have contemplated an execution on the basis of Jewish religious disputes, Brown notes that 30 years later Jewish leaders sentenced Jesus, the son of Ananias, to death...