Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted poster issued last week by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the suspected robber of Matthews Hall has been discredited and disgraced by a fabricated redesign. The altered version of the poster includes a caricature of a black male in place of the original police sketch and mocks the criminal's alias as "Afro-American...
These discoveries and theories, and many more, are vigorously contested on all sides by archaeologists, religious scholars and historians. On some things just about everyone agrees. The Bible version of Israelite history after the reign of King Solomon, for example, is generally believed to be based on historical fact because it is corroborated by independent accounts of Kings and battles in Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions of the time...
Prior to that, though - before about 930 B.C. - the experts disagree on just about everything. At one pole in this scholarly version of Crossfire is the group known as the maximalists, who consider the Bible a legitimate guidebook for archaeological research. At the other are the minimalists, or biblical nihilists, who believe the Bible is a religious document and thus can't be read as any sort of objective account. "They say of Bible material, 'If it cannot be proved to be historical it's not historical,' " explains Frank Moore Cross, professor emeritus of Oriental languages at Harvard, who puts...
...Evans, who has plenty of reason to celebrate this holiday season. His novella, The Christmas Box, an inspirational Christmas story he originally published himself, is sitting at or near the top of the nation's best-seller lists, with more than 2 million copies in print. A TV-movie version starring Maureen O'Hara and Richard Thomas will air Sunday on CBS. And a prequel will arrive in bookstores in time for Easter and Mother...
...only is the crowd entertained by rock songs during stoppages of play, but to begin the game, Princeton uses a classy version of America the Beautiful instead of the traditional national anthem. It could have been a nice touch had the music not skipped and as a result been cut off half-way through...