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...like the best-selling Bible Code and an X-Files episode about a golem, the Jewish proto-Frankenstein monster. Publishers are turning out dozens of titles on subjects ranging from arcana to kids' Kabbalah. Most intriguing, mysticism is increasingly viewed as the answer to what United Jewish Appeal officer Alan Bayer calls "a hungry, thirsty, bottle-of-water-in-the-desert need for connection with transcendent meanings" among ordinary Jews. Concludes Brandeis University professor Arthur Green, a scholar and advocate of mysticism: "For nearly 200 years, Western Jews tried to hide Kabbalah under the rug. Now it's been rediscovered...
...letter to his Japanese counterpart two weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin reportedly urged Tokyo to move swiftly to regenerate the Japanese economy and warned against flooding the U.S. with exports as a way to solve Japanese problems. And with concerns rising in Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified last week that Asia's problems, while not yet "serious threats" to the U.S. economy, could become so if they are not defused properly. To do that, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was to meet with Japanese officials in Tokyo this week to discuss an emergency bailout fund...
...algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to impractical deadbeats. Most of us know that if you want an elegant computer that is easy to set up, operate and maintain, you buy a Mac. Otherwise you get a PC. ALAN THOMPSON San Mateo, Calif...
...mind. And yet, for one night anyway, it was 1994 all over again, with Ewing shutting down the middle and John Starks (remember him?) lighting it up from downtown as the Knicks beat the Hawks 100-79. Of course, Atlanta was playing without top players Steve Smith and Alan Henderson. But with New York muddling along with the cast of veterans the team mortgaged its future to buy, any win is a good...
...screens nationwide. Directed by Disney renegades Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven), this fanciful story about the lost princess of the Romanovs has all the elements for a cartoon hit: a girl-becomes-a-woman plot; a chipper, Alan Menkenish score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Once on This Island, Ragtime); and a cute, chatty bat. Close your ears to the Fox fanfare in the opening moments, and you can mistake it for a Disney film. Which is exactly what Fox hopes parents will...