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...Jerusalem Rewriting History? An Israeli biblical scholar claims that the Essenes, the 1st century Jewish community commonly believed to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls, may never have existed. Rachel Elior contends that the story of the virtuous Essenes was fabricated by a former priest as a "rebuttal to anti-Semitic literature" of the time. The scrolls, she says, may have been written by members of a priestly caste banished from Jerusalem in the 2nd century...
...proposing a plan that deviated from the Verba report in omitting the J-Term. At the end of that academic year, interim President Derek C. Bok announced that the Harvard Corporation had approved a plan modeled on the Verba committee’s original outline. Bok had written in his announcement that plans for the time between early January and the start of spring term would be left to the discretion of individual schools. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...marketing tool that Twitter gave us was to be able to say less tailored things, talking in slang to students, and they would accept it more,” Welch said.The Harvard Book Store also keeps a Twitter at “harvardbooks” of events and updates written in a friendly, casual tone. Diana G. Kimball ’09, a Twitter user with a passion for the Internet, agreed with the importance of humanizing a company through Twittering.“You can’t just use it as a advertising platform...
...less scientific approach to politics is necessary because it is more practical. Indeed, Jimmy Carter once signed an executive order that federal regulations be written “simply and clearly.” When presented with a memo directing staffers to “obscure all Federal buildings…from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination,” Franklin Roosevelt told his assistants that if a blackout occurred, “to put something across the windows.” Real leaders—and real people—do not speak in jargon...
...Prabhakaran finds himself cornered, his end may be dramatic, suggests Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. "Prabhakaran will stay back and fight until death," says Gunaratna, who has written extensively about the Tigers. At an April 2002 press conference, during the cease-fire, the Tiger leader said he had advised his aides to kill him if there were ever a threat of capture. Recently there have been intelligence reports that he had advised his cadres to burn his body and not allow it to be discovered...