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...money due to frauds every year - and so aside from the magnitude of the fraud, it's difficult to find a justification to treat Madoff's victims different than the victims of the Worldcom fraud or Enron," says Chris Clark, a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. "I don't mean to sound unsympathetic, but it's difficult for me to imagine that Congress would legislate relief for one group of aggrieved investors when people lost billions of dollars in Lehman Brothers. Are they going to pass a statute that says you get your money back if you lost...
...there were such a thing as evangelical royalty, Anne Graham Lotz would be the crown princess. Billy Graham's daughter is an author and preacher who has led revivals for tens of thousands of people around the globe. But having a recognizable last name doesn't mean she always feels comfortable in church. In her new book, The Magnificent Obsession, Graham Lotz writes about feeling alienated at times from "religious people" and pursuing her own religious calling despite the disapproval of her famous parents...
...have switched religions or left a church, that's a lot of people. That's one reason I had to write this book. Even in my own life, I've found that religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God. And by "religion," I don't mean "faith." I mean rituals, creeds, traditions, and often leaders - all of our means of trying to connect with God. They can get in the way of developing a relationship with God. (Read a TIME cover story on Rick Warren...
...about the fact that God ordered Abraham to leave behind his family, a command that Jesus gave his disciples as well. Do you believe that's still a requirement for following God's will? When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them. For me, that meant I had to be willing to step outside the opinions of my parents when I started Bible Study Fellowship [a Bible school for laywomen in North Carolina...
...script is coming into view. "We want to find the bedrock against which all further interpretation of the language should be checked," says Vahia. Down the road, he imagines he could write in "flawless Harappan" - even though he may have no idea what the assembled sequences would mean. Rajesh Rao, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington and a co-author of the study, says the task ahead of them is "like a jigsaw puzzle, one where you try to fit meanings into patterns and sequences." At the moment, he and his team are wary...