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...crutches- but nonsense in any case. The "subtle points of interpretation and evaluation" were really quite simple. Fink was not there. The Committee had not treated anything "quite exhaustively." The Committee had not known where Fink was standing. This amazing letter continued, and even returned to English, to warn Fink that "if the case is reopened . . . it is entirely possible that sanctions would be made more rather than less severe under the circumstances...
...Although no one will put it so bluntly in public, there is considerable disagreement over whether states and cities can be trusted to spend wisely the new money they may get. Mills, Byrnes and many others warn that if Congress hands over billions to the states and cities with no strings attached, it will begin a dangerous dismantling of the control procedures in present programs that are intended to make sure Washington gets the best use out of its aid dollars. Proponents of revenue sharing argue back that Washington has no monopoly on brains. "Those closest to local needs...
...execution invited comparison to Jesus Christ's own Passion on the cross-which scholars believe took place about A.D. 30, when Jesus was in his mid-30s.*But Israel's director of antiquities, Avraham Biran, and a number of Christian biblical scholars were quick to warn against any attempt to identify the skeleton as that of Jesus. As Dr. Bruce Metzger of the Princeton Theological Seminary pointed out, "We have absolutely no knowledge of Jesus' physical stature." Moreover, the man was younger than Jesus, and the Gospels report that the Roman soldiers, in contrast to their regular...
...duty to warn that this achievement is jeopardized by diminishing funds," he added...
Khrushchev began rushing intermediate-range nuclear missiles, launching equipment and Ilyushin-28 bombers to Cuba. President Kennedy's dramatic response was to order a naval blockade of Cuba and to warn that the U.S. would take "whatever means may be necessary" to remove the missiles. Khrushchev grew alarmed. Seeking "to take the heat off the situation," he suggested to other members of his government: "Comrades, let's go to the Bolshoi Theater this evening. Our own people as well as foreign eyes will notice, and perhaps it will calm them down." After he and Kennedy had begun exchanging...