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James E. Waller, Kibuchi E. Banfield and Nile N. Johnson have impeccable manners, firm handshakes and sit with near-perfect posture on Turnbull’s red couch. They carry themselves like professional singers...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Choir Travels From Harlem to Harvard | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...entire community was uprooted. A 1956 proclamation signed by the Egyptian Minister of Religious Affairs said, “all Jews are Zionists and enemies of the state,” and promised to expel them. Wahed had to leave his British school, the pyramids and the Nile that he loved, and Cairo, his native home. He and his family fled to Europe as stateless refugees, forced to begin life anew...

Author: By Cecile Zwiebach, | Title: Middle East’s Jewish Refugees | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Websites | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...birds isn't good news for humankind, says the Audubon's chief ornithologist, Frank Gill, since birds are indeed the canaries in the global coal mine. "Birds are one of our best indicators of environmental and other problems that can affect humans as well," Gill says. The West Nile virus, he notes, turned up in birds before it reached humans. --By Rebecca Winters

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad News Birds | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...they travel, God elaborates on his offer. Abraham's children will be as numerous as grains of dust on the earth and stars in the sky. They will spend 400 years as slaves but ultimately possess the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. The pact is sealed in a mysterious ceremony in a dream, during which the Lord, appearing as a smoking torch, puts himself formally under oath. He requires a different acknowledgment from Abraham: he must inscribe a sign of the Covenant on his body, initiating the Jewish and Muslim customs of circumcision. He is now committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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