Word: confirmation
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Murphy still has confidence in Linden'sability, but would not confirm his startingquarterback for next week...
Saudi thieves take note: A 48-year-old New Zealander who three weeks ago underwent the first hand-transplant in decades held a press conference Thursday to confirm that the new limb felt just like his old one. Hallam lost his hand in 1984, in what he told French doctors was a logging accident. The accident was later revealed to have occurred in a New Zealand prison, where Hallam had been serving a two-year sentence for fraud. "Embarrassed as they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation," says TIME correspondent Michael D. Lemonick...
...when CUE Guide Editor-in-Chief Ona M. Hahs '99 was searching for the true identity (or lack thereof) of Ulf Fireloins a.k.a. "Fuerloin," she asked Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences John M. Doyle if he could confirm his colleague's existence...
Most moderate members of Congress would prefer a long stint on the surface transportation subcommittee. The Judiciary Committee's incendiary issues make its members inviting targets for special-interest attack ads, which can be treacherous for members from competitive districts. And since the committee doesn't even confirm federal judges, as its Senate counterpart does, it's almost entirely patronage free. At least on surface transportation, a member could get a new bus line for his home district...
...event is called See You at the Pole. According to Doug Clark, field-ministries director at its San Diego-based coordinating collective, the National Network of Youth Ministries, last Wednesday the group mobilized "more than 3 million" Christian teens in 50 states to schoolyard prayer. Witnesses and local organizers confirm that 110 showed up at Ripon High School in Ripon, Calif.; 50 at Nashua High in Nashua, N.H.; and a total of 4,871 at 63 schools in San Antonio, Texas. Clark's figures seem a bit overoptimistic, but even at half strength, the national event, which has been building...