Word: believingness
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The years from A.D. 1 to A.D. 33 happened to be a high point for the holy city. It was, says Eric Meyers, professor of Judaic studies at Duke University, "a great, great metropolitan area" and home to the lavishly restored Jewish Temple, a world-renowned wonder. It was prosperous...
By even asking the question, we provoke a clash of two powerful cultures, two very different ways of looking at the world. The Indian tradition develops metaphors and ways of describing the body (life forces, energy centers) as it is experienced, from the inside out. The Western tradition looks at...
"We came into the tournament believing that we could win it all" said Botterill, whose Olympic commitments will force her to wait two years for another shot at the national title. "The game against Dartmouth was great because it reminded us how much we wanted to win it all."
"There are all kinds of unforeseeable and unintended consequences of what's going on," says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He's especially dour on the economy, saying corporate earnings will fall 20% this year and that before it's all over we will have...
"Seeing is believing" is a common mantra in Western culture, and in the artistic world, photography is, for many, the best medium to capture reality. Photographs are admissible as court evidence, and we take photographs to document events, preserve memories and visually relate to others part of our experiences.