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...course, it's not uncommon for people to drop out of the rat race in favor of more spiritual pursuits. Still, Christie's decision to join the Church of England put him decidedly outside the mainstream. The Church's membership has dwindled dramatically over the past few decades, and Christie says he realizes that the days when vicars were automatically viewed as respected community figures are long gone. "Being a clergyman doesn't have much moral authority these days," he says. And as a vicar, he says he sometimes struggles to balance demands for what people...
...senior security officer for the western provinces; and executed each of them with a bullet through the head. In Samarra members of the Alboubaz tribe killed four foreign fighters and drove out 11 others after the assassination of a local police chief. After the tribesmen urged Sunni youths to join the local police, al-Zarqawi got his revenge. The instructors weren't going to make the same mistake they had made in Ramadi by allowing recruits to become an easy target for a suicide bomber, so they had them sign up in Baghdad. But al-Zarqawi's men were tipped...
...even imaginable if we, resigned to the world as it is, are content to merely enter into the system rather than place ourselves in a position to change it. Harvard does such a good job during our four years here to cultivate a certain restlessness, an insatiable longing to join the “real world” of Wall Street or to have a guaranteed, positive influence on others as doctors or the like. These routes are often the most obvious, most comfortable channels for our eager and well-meaning spirits but not necessarily the ones by which...
...Thernstrom, who has taught at UCLA and is considered one of Harvard’s most conservative professors, said he was contacted by the BAA at its founding last year and agreed to join in support of its goal to promote objectivity in the classroom...
...United States seven years ago, the rise of Japan?s Internet sector has stoked a surge in online brokerage companies and individual stock investing. According to some estimates, individual investors now account for 50% of the Japanese market?s total trading volume. ?Many Japanese households have started to join in the stock market, and a lot of money went into technology stock shares,? says Aida. ?They got panicked. This should be a lesson for them.? Indeed, on Thursday, Japan?s market staged its biggest rally in 20 months and exchange chairman Taizo Nishimuro assured investors that it would double...