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After the acquisition, Gates began the arduous process of authenticating the manuscript. He explained that his verification process entailed “lining up” the events, times and places in the text and comparing them to known historical facts. If the purported origin of the text is genuine, the textual and factual details “will look like mirror images,” he said...
Dartboard is, though, concerned that many people here spend far too long plugged into their computers and not nearly enough time switched on to the world around them. How many students lament that they never get a chance to make the arduous ten minute journey into Boston but spend hours playing Snood, chatting banally on Instant Messenger or searching the Internet for virtual girls when they should out be looking for real dates? E-mail seems as vital to Harvard students’ existence as Vitamin C. Administrators should arrest these worrying trends, not encourage them...
...Another, more controversial measure would match baggage to passengers, making sure no bags are checked without an accompanying traveler. European airports have embraced this arduous and time-consuming task, but U.S. pilots hate the idea, says Gritta. "Pilots hate it because it?s a pain and pushes their time back even further when they?re up against the wall already." Opponents also argue that such a move would do nothing to deter suicide bombers, who by definition are happy to climb aboard a plane right along with their bombs...
Last week’s address by Ron Unz at the Graduate School of Education marks the beginning of what will be a long and arduous debate, as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts wrestles over the future of bilingual education. Unz, a California millionaire who already tried to dismantle bilingual education programs in California and Arizona, has come to Massachusetts, the state with the oldest bilingual education law in America, to repeat his past efforts...
...setting of the White House East Room, President Bush was by turns stern, folksy, animated, and subdued - but he never strayed from focusing on the war against terrorism that has transformed himself and his administration. Mr. Bush seemed supremely confident that even though the task would be long and arduous, the U.S. would emerge victorious...