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Colby, which will become a Division III women's hockey team next season, has struggled in its final Division I campaign. The White Mules have been outscored 37-3 en route to falling into a tie for 13th place in the ECAC and are still looking for their first victory...
...Secularists Rail Against Superstition" (News, November 13): Harvard Secular Society public relations director Christopher M. Kirchhoff states that "the Bible says that Jesus was crucified on the 13th, the temple of Solomon was destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam the apple on the 13th." But the Bible says nothing of the sort. The text of Genesis is conspicuously silent on the date of this transaction with respect to Creation or any other benchmark--though one suspects that such reticence should not be a matter of great concern in light of the moral significance of this episode...
...crucifixion of Jesus, the standard chronology would make it outright impossible that this event occurred on any "13th" if the Last Supper took place on the 15th of Nisan (i.e. the first evening of Passover), the first month of the ecclesiastical calendar and the ninth of the civil calendar. November...
...been estimated that each year theAmerican economy loses a billion dollars fromplane and train reservation cancellations,absenteeism and reduced commerce on the 13th ofeach month," Araujo said...
...superstition is rooted in pagan traditionas well as a number of biblical citations. Mostnotably, Kirchhoff said, the Bible says that Jesuswas crucified on the 13th, the temple of Solomonwas destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam theapple on the 13th...