Word: indebtedness
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Whether true or not in Rumi's case, it is a fate that has certainly befallen the words of many another Asian mystic imported to American shores. Having outgrown its old orthodoxies while remaining profoundly hungry for the spiritual nutrition they once provided, the Western world has for decades been...
DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAPS Most countries with surviving wilderness also happen to be relatively poor and indebted to the developed world. In 1984 Thomas Lovejoy, then with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), had the idea of converting vice to virtue by buying off or forgiving debt if developing countries gave...
Corporate Raiders In the latest twist in the Vivendi saga, French investigators launched a probe nto the indebted media company's accounts, seizing documents from its headquarters.
Rodgers and Hart collaborated once more: five new songs for a revival of their 1927 hit "A Connecticut Yankee." The last lyric Hart wrote was for "To Keep My Love Alive," sung by a noble lady of who tires easily of men - 15 husbands, 15 early funerals. "Sir Philip played...
The vogue for psychoanalysis was running high in those years, and Bernays acknowledges the seminal influence of her great-uncle Sigmund: "In many ways, the 20th century--and probably the 21st as well--is indebted to him for so many things, for the way we think about things." Yet she...