Word: parleying
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...Abraham Institute, a Charlottesville, Va., association that organizes intensive three-way scriptural studies modeled on Abraham's hospitality to the strangers at his tent. It has held meetings in Denver and at England's Cambridge University and has sent representatives to lecture in Cape Town, South Africa, and parley with imams in Malaysia. It has the ear of the incoming Archbishop ofCanterbury. At one of its gatherings last October, University of Virginia professor of Islamic studies Abdulaziz Sachedina expressed an interfaith ideal when he contended that people of faith can "control" their respective interpretations of Abraham's story "so that...
...game in Germany, using his patience to drive down the price of Deutsche Telekom's cable assets before he swoops in again. "I don't believe he's done in Germany. This is how he negotiates," says a longtime Liberty observer. But price is only one part of the parley. Germany may be Europe's largest television market, with 33 million households, but it's also one of the most antiquated. Already, two foreign players in the German cable market, NTL's Iesy and Callahan Associates' Ish, have had to scale back the pace of their digital TV and telephony...