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...social activism; and mainline birthrates lag behind the national average. Most mainline leaders claim their plight may hold hidden opportunities. The Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, a methodist minister and general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (whose membership historically has had a strong Protestant presence), notes, "the [Hebrew] prophets never had a majority, and yet they had important things to say. Maybe this is a positive wake-up call for us to worry less about numbers and more about faithfulness and relevancy. It's moral authority, not a function of size...
...Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism (Atlantic Books; 165 pages) is the latest attempt to solve the puzzle of Islamic rage - and it is possibly the most provocative. Its authors, Ian Buruma, a respected commentator on Asian affairs, and Avishai Margalit, a professor of philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, assert that the ideas inspiring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists originally sprang from the West. The book is a belated follow-up to Orientalism, the classic 1978 work by Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, which described how Europeans have long stereotyped non-Westerners ("Orientals") in ways that emphasize...
Moving to London and adopting a British accent: that was child's play. The mother of reinvention, MADONNA has gone and changed her name--her religious name, anyway. In adherence to Cabala, the medieval Jewish mysticism she famously studies, the Ethereal Girl has taken on the Hebrew name Esther because her given name, which belonged to her mother, who died young of cancer, carries negative energy. Dropping her dead mother's name? If it's good karma she's after, this seems like a wash...
After a speech by Gomes, several prayers—including readings from the Hebrew Bible, Hindu Scripture, the Holy Quran and the New Testament—and two anthems sung by the Commencement Choir, Summers slowly rose to deliver the keynote address...
...study, led by Robert McLean at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Massachusetts, found that men with the highest homocysteine levels were four times as likely to develop hip fractures as men with the lowest levels. The second study, from researchers at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, found that men and women with the highest levels of homocysteine had twice the risk of suffering a fracture compared with those with the lowest levels...