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Moses finally agrees to do God's bidding and ultimately leads the Israelites out of Egypt. The Israelites settle in the Land of Israel, build a couple of temples and are expelled from Israel after the Romans sack the second one in 70 A.D. Nearly 2000 years later, Zionists return...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Burning Bush | 2/26/1992 | See Source »

When the chairman of the Federal Reserve speaks -- especially in the midst of a prolonged recession -- people listen. Last week Alan Greenspan had the ears of Washington and Wall Street peeled during Senate hearings on his confirmation to a second term (all but a foregone conclusion). Greenspan defended the go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Thus Spoke Greenspan | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Democrats also want credit for taking cash out of the Treasury and putting it back in voters' pockets in an election year. The tax-cutting frenzy in Washington almost guarantees a repeat of the 1981 bidding war that helped produce the $3 trillion in government debt that the U.S. has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of the Union | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

This is more obvious in Pileggi's case, since he wrote the book Wiseguy, about the federal witness-protection program, as well as the Martin Scorsese movie based on it, GoodFellas. Nora, meanwhile, did two comic riffs on the same theme -- screenplays for Cookie (with a Bobby Kennedy imitator as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Repossess A Life: NORA EPHRON | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

How long can Harvard hold out? There is currently no cap on the financial aid budget, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has a deficit of more than $10 million, and former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky imposed a six percent across-the-board cut in the operating...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: STAYING AFLOAT AFTER OVERLAP | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

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