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...brand-new markets among the poor for life-changing technologies like cell phones. Others - sometimes with a nudge from activists - have seen how they can do good and do well at the same time. To take a real-world example, a few years ago I was sitting in a bar with Bono, and frankly, I thought he was a little nuts. It was late, we'd had a few drinks, and Bono was all fired up over a scheme to get companies to help tackle global poverty and disease. He kept dialing the private numbers of top executives and thrusting...
...Asked about a rivalry between the two vampire projects, Harris, a feisty Southerner, took the bait, imagining a bite-off between the vampire clan in Twilight and the staff of a vampire bar called Fangtasia from her books. "If it came to a Cullen Family-Fangtasia smackdown, I think the Fangtasia staff would win," she said, to whoops and cheers...
...desperation, they've been talking through different scenarios for an ouster and how Brown's departure could be explained to the electorate. On a rare sunny day this month, just before parliament rose for its long summer recess, MPs and party activists occupied every table at the riverside terrace bar of the House of Commons. The breeze was gentle, but their conversation was brutal. "Prime Ministers have been known to suffer health problems," mused one plotter...
...because it can't be taken seriously. Kabbalah did not cohere around a book; the book was an attempt to record in writing a tradition that had been around for centuries. The Zohar may have been first published in the 13th century, but it was written by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a Talmudic sage who lived in about the 2nd century. Levi Rudd, Miami Beach, Florida...
...barbaric legacy in parts of his empire. Seeking to bring Jerusalem to heel as a Roman colony, he stripped it of its name, outlawed circumcision and built a temple to Jupiter near the site of the great Jewish Temple, which the Romans had sacked in A.D. 71. When Simon Bar Kokhba led a Jewish rebellion beginning in A.D. 132, Hadrian's troops exacted revenge: according to one early account, they razed 985 Jewish villages and slaughtered 585,000 Jews...