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...single text from Nag Hammadi--the Gospel of Thomas--has proved to be of widespread interest. Thomas offers no narrative report on Jesus or comment on his career, but it does offer a collection of isolated sayings. Many are versions of sayings already available in the four canonical Gospels. A few others are so striking as to be perhaps genuine. For instance, in Thomas, Jesus says, "He who is near me is near fire, but he who is far from me is far from the kingdom" and "Split the wood and I am there; lift up the stone...
...into 14,000 categories before they are cut and polished, making it nearly impossible to mark each one in a way that could be retained from mine to showroom. Says Willy Nagel, a top De Beers broker in London: "The certification of diamonds is not foolproof. Smuggling is so widespread and so difficult to combat that one way or another, the UNITA diamonds are going to get on the market...
...Indeed, the Muslim states are the best case in point. Arab power was done in for good when Ferdinand and Isabella demolished the last Moorish stronghold on Iberian soil in 1492. This was no accident, comrades, as the Soviets used to say. It so happens that qahwa came into widespread use throughout the Islamic world in the mid-15th century. Fifty years later, Arab power was finished. And soon after, so was the Ottoman Empire. In 1699, the Turkish advance was stopped once and for all at the gates of Vienna. But now it was the Habsburgs' turn. Retreating...
...Anecdotal indications suggest that burnout is a fairly widespread phenomenon on campus," Ducey writes in an e-mail message...
There once was a time when Big Men and Big Women roamed the colleges of this nation, amassing high honors, pursuing diverse achievements, and earning the widespread admiration (and/or resentment) of their peers. That time is evidently over. We have no real public figures on our campus--at least none that command any amount of serious respect. Yes, most people know the names of Noah Z. Seton '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00, but I doubt that there is a reservoir of popular emotional affinity for either figure...