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According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Jordan's collaborator will be legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, an untenured professor at New York University's law school, who swept to prominence last year with the publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy . Hailed as the definitive account of Jefferson's long-rumored love affair with the slave Sally Hemings, Gordon-Reed's book argues that historians should give credence to the story of Jefferson's mistress and their six children.
I disagree strongly with columnist Jacob Weisberg's assertion in "Spin Out" that, by employing renowned attorney Robert Bennett to defend him against sexual harassment charges, President Clinton has lent credence to those charges.
New research by botany professor Avinoam Danin (Hebrew National University in Jerusalem) lends credence to the theory that the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth.
Recent news reports out of Britain are giving credence to the theory that cellular phone use increases the risk of brain cancer.
That atheistic Jews very often have the same fear lends credence to this point.