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...Politics," said Frank Zappa, "is the entertainment branch of industry.'' Much as I prefer to avoid quoting the artist behind "Nasty Little Jewish Princess'' and "Camarillo Brillo'' as a political sage, I think he has a point. Flamboyance, pizzazz and showbiz skills have eclipsed policy savvy as chief prerequisites for national politics, and politicians have changed their strategies as a result. This makes perfect sense to me. Only major caffeine abuse could keep me conscious through a policy guru's lecture on the tax code, but if the same wonk dons a pair of shades and blows...
...Norwegian U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, who played a leading behind-the-scenes role in brokering the Oslo agreement, urged Israel on Tuesday to reopen its borders to the more than one fifth of the Palestinian work force who've been unable to reach their jobs in the Jewish state - and warned that the precipitous decline of the Palestinian economy was planting the seeds of a regional war. The Israeli blockade has quadrupled Palestinian unemployment, and the two months of the uprising have seen income losses to Palestinians totaling more than $500 million dollars. Indeed, the World Bank...
...Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville notified Kugel, Starr professor of classical, modern Jewish and Hebrew literature, several weeks ago that he was the recipient of the 2001Grawemeyer Award in Religion, a $200,000 prize...
Kugel, director of the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and a member of the Harvard Divinity School, has taught the Core class, Literature and Arts C-37, "The Bible and its Interpreters." Although the course will be offered this spring, Kugel will not be the instructor. He is also the author of 40 research articles and eight books...
...chances of winning the election he was forced to call last week, and Monday's fierce gun battles in Bethlehem and Ramallah were a reminder of just how elusive such a deal may be. Israeli helicopter gunships fired on a Palestinian neighborhood in Bethlehem after Israeli troops guarding the Jewish shrine of Rachel's Tomb were fired on, while the Ramallah firefight capped a weekend of clashes that followed the mistaken killing by Israeli snipers of a Palestinian construction worker...