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Jewish mysticism dates far back into antiquity, but the Kabbalah ("received" teachings) crystallized with the Zohar, the 13th century masterpiece set down in ancient Aramaic by the Spanish Jew Moses de Leon. Superficially, the book was a mystical novel, a kind of Celestine Prophecy precursor. But initiates knew better. Shrouded in its story lines were the keys to unlock the Hebrew Bible--and hence all existence. Whereas standard rabbinic Judaism sometimes seems to look backward to God's most intimate interactions with his chosen people and forward to a Messiah, Kabbalah stresses the Deity's presence as immediate...
...developed prototype artillery shells, rockets and bombs filled with sarin, which proved its effectiveness in a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. Between 1991 and 1994, the Special Commission supervised the destruction of 690 tons of chemical-warfare agents and more than 3,000 tons of "precursor" chemicals that could be used to make poisons. The inspectors believe Iraq still has hidden as much as 4,000 tons of precursors. They note that the Iraqis are even now running a research and development program and could go back to producing chemical weapons as soon as the inspectors...
Koreans of Harvard-Radcliffe was the precursor...
...Such strings of volatile trading days have been rare, occurring roughly 20 times since 1950, says Alan Shaw, chief technical analyst at Smith Barney. The clusters have overwhelmingly been closer to the start than the end of long rallies. "It's a wives' tale that this volatility is a precursor of some negative move," Shaw says. A streak of volatile prices last occurred late in 1990, which was the start of the current bull market. Clusters also occurred near the start of bull markets in '82, '74, '70, '66, '62 and '50. Clusters occurred near market tops...
...having twice demonstrated his inability to groom a successor, Allen is now part of the problem. "Bob Allen is a caretaker when the company needs a visionary," says Scott Cleland of the Legg Mason Precursor Group. "The company has lost a year and a half in setting the direction for the next millennium...