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...roots. Christians would be orphans." The resulting Vatican II document rolled back centuries of anti-Judaism and began a rehabilitation of the notion of Abraham as a Jew. No one has pursued its spirit more avidly than Pope John Paul II, who in March 2000 pressed a prayer card between blocks of Jerusalem's Western Wall: "God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations ... we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant...
...SPRINT PCS charges $5 to speak to an agent about paying with a credit card or making other arrangements, bills high-credit-risk customers $3 to get an agent on the line and bills for airtime when users press *4 to check how many minutes they have left...
...like Franklin D. Lewis, author of the recent Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, are anxious to remind the poet's legions of new fans that when Rumi invited his listener or reader to leave the yesses and nos of conventional belief behind, he did so as a card-carrying member of a culture that unquestioningly accepted Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets, and the Koran as God's last word, dictated verbatim by the angel Gabriel...
...capacity exceeds demand, inflation drops below 0%, companies sit on their cash rather than investing it, prices fall and wages retreat. Workers paid low wages in inflationary times find their debt harder to repay if they get a further cut-a terrible prospect in this period of record credit-card bills. Deflation has devastated Japan since its 1980s bubble burst. "But you don't need to be Japanese to worry about it," says Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley's chief economist. Now that the American and European stock bubbles have popped, Western economies are feeling similar pressures. August inflation...
Harvard may pioneer a new Silicon-Valley in Boston one day, but until then, I’ll settle for an online study card filing system here in Cambridge. As much fun as it is to bubble in the numbers, I can live without the perennial rush for signatures. E-mail tag and sprints to emergency office hours were not the kinds of student-faculty interaction I had in mind when I chose starred seminars from the Courses of Instruction...