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Body", which was made into a movie in 2001, is about a Jewish archaeologist who finds a skeleton underneath an Arab shopkeeper's basement that might be the body of Jesus and the American Jesuit priest who is sent by the Vatican to investigate.
Richard Sapir was a graduate of Columbia University and lived with his wife in New Hampshire before he died in 1987 from a heart attack.
- Edward Sapir (1904), linguist and co-creator of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
- Mark Raymond Harrington (1907), curator at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and owner of the Rómulo Pico Adobe
- Edwin Borchard (1908), International legal scholar; Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School
- Richard F. Bach (1909), curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Rhys Carpenter (1909), American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College
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