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...Sunni jihadis. After all, American soldiers had recently been raiding the giant Baghdad slum, attacking Shi'ite militias that enjoy a great deal of popular support there. Inevitably, some Shi'ites put two and two together - and got 22: On Saturday a cleric representing Moqtada al-Sadr, who enjoys demigod status in Sadr City, accused the U.S. of ganging up with Sunni insurgents and jihadis against the Shi'ites...
Then, the demigod intervenes...
...Etiology and Mechanistic Pharmacology,” a once-weekly three-hour lecture which invites scientists, entrepreneurs, and ethicists to speak on a dozen issues at the intersection of modern medicine and organic chemistry. Last year, a few of Harvard’s top scientists, such as stem cell demigod Prof. Douglas A. Melton and former National Institute of Mental Health chief (and now University provost) Steven E. Hyman dropped by, as well as a few HMS researchers and pharmaceutical company executives. And what course on medicine and society wouldn’t be complete without a visit from Prof...
...chairman isn't all-powerful; whether to raise or lower taxes, for example, isn't up to him. But partly because interest rates, which the Fed does control, fundamentally affect the way consumers and businesses spend money and partly because Greenspan solidified the standing of Fed chairman as a demigod, every thought that Bernanke utters is treated as Delphic. "The U.S. economy appears to be in a period of transition," he told Congress, with the robust growth of the past three years moderating, which in turn should help keep inflation in check. The stock market rallied, anticipating...
...moment one set of deceptions is exposed, another takes its place. Edward finds Jesse, but the old man is apparently being held prisoner in his own house. He says the three dutiful acolytes have tried to poison him. The women tell Edward that Jesse is ill and deranged, a demigod whose powers have failed. The visitor wonders why he came and cannot seem to leave: "Is it just that, for some reason I shall never know, I have to take part in the final act of a drama...in which I shall be casually annihilated...