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...promise that Israel "shall be my treasured possession among all the peoples." Moses leads his followers to the foot of the mountain where God begins to speak to them. They tremble. "You speak to us and we will obey," they tell Moses,"but let not God speak to us, lest we die." God complies, Moses ascends and verbally receives what the ancient rabbis called the "10 pearls," which he reports to the Israelites. In a ritual similar to contemporary Hittite and Assyrian treaties between a King and his vassals, the Israelites then swear their loyalty to the Lord. God bids...
...Lest we forget, Bill Gates is the world's richest entrepreneur, who made his fortune in the free market. Capitalism is not, per se, a force for good, but the good it enables is immense. Anyone who doubts its unmatched power to finance good works should bear that image of Mr. and Mrs. Gates in mind. KEVIN A. SHAPIRO...
Other quintessential teen experiences include stressful episodes related to cheerleading tryouts and the time I was busted for having a party while my parents were out of town. Lest I forget, I also met my teen idol, Leonardo DiCaprio and was so giggly when he agreed to a photo that I bumbled embarrassingly as I tried to extract my camera from its case...
...that means she first performed in Evening with Champions when she was two years old. And lest you believe it's not possible, there are numerous witnesses in the senior class who remember her performances at the ages of three and four, when she sailed across the ice with the aplomb of someone...er, four times...
...lest you think countless Citizen Kanes are falling through the cracks, people whose job it is to see hundreds of independent films will quickly disabuse you of that romance. "There's this notion that there are all these amazing movies out there, and it's just not true," says John Cooper, a programmer at the Sundance Film Festival (which this year received around 800 feature submissions for 45 slots). Still, the idea that many hundreds of movies are going unseen each year--even movies worse than the ones we do see--is sobering. Yes, show business is designed to shatter...