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...person these days doubts that Jesus lived. Some accept it on faith, others on the testimony of a brace of ancient chroniclers, both Christian and Roman. Yet there is something uniquely compelling about an attestation in stone. As Lemaire explained to TIME, "The written word is a bit airy. Listen, you can talk about Egyptian civilization, but the day you visit the pyramids, it speaks to you in a different way." Or as Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, says of the ossuary, "It is something tactile and visible reaching back to the single most important personage ever...
...only can describe every minute detail of a dish, from farm and forest to table, but has mastered the wine list as well, and a handsome dining room with the best view in Boston. And the food itself is very good, and sometimes excellent. If only Lynch would listen to her waiters and stop hedging her menu, the food would reach the dazzling level of every other aspect of her restaurant...
...dramatic contrast from only a decade ago, virtually all Harvard students have personal computers. A good old-fashioned radio, on the other hand, is becoming difficult to find. Undergraduates use the Internet far more often than they listen to the airwaves—illustrating the damage that will be done to nonprofit student radio stations because of a recent decision to charge royalties for songs broadcast over the Internet...
...kind of entertaining in itself because you don’t really get the nuanced insults unless you listen to them about five times,” Diaz says...
...layoff or strike. Unlike any other CEO in the business, Jim Parker, 55, who joined Southwest in 1986 and took over the top spot from founder Herb Kelleher last year, personally leads most negotiations from Day One. "The biggest complaint in the industry is that management doesn't listen to employees," observes Southwest pilot Brad Bartholomew. "But you can't say that at Southwest. The top guy is in the room." After sometimes acrimonious talks with the mechanics union, Parker took both sides out to dinner. He insists, however, that the company must defend the flexibility over work rules...