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...passages highly subject to interpretation. They point out that Jesus and the Apostles saw themselves as Jews; John's wholesale condemnation of the faith, they speculate, may reflect Christian-Jewish rancor in A.D. 95, when that Gospel was written, more than the politics of Jesus' era. The great Catholic scholar Raymond Brown concluded upon meticulous examination that the "blood on our children" line was a specific group's oath of responsibility rather than an assumption of eternal, racial guilt...
...Agreed Framework took 55 rounds to complete; current talks have not begun, yet already the North has set the process back by threatening to export nuclear bombs. "These are people who believe in letting 20% of their people starve if necessary," says Adrian Buzo, an Australian scholar who was a diplomat in Pyongyang in the 1970s. "They already have missiles. They have rudimentary nuclear devices. What can the world offer them...
...have to be an expert or a scholar to write for an encyclopedia. To contribute to wikipedia.org an online encyclopedia, all you need is Web access. Wikipedia ("wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word for fast) invites visitors to create new entries or edit existing ones. This may sound like a recipe for chaos--a disclaimer on the site reads, "It is of course possible for biased, out-of-date or incorrect information to be posted." But since thousands of people review updates and changes every day, false information usually gets corrected. Created in 2001, the free, nonprofit site currently...
...scholar and professor, Ford received many awards and fellowships, including a Harvard Sheldon Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and the American Philosophical Society...
...leave of absence from the Harvard economics department, which he joined in 1999. Prior to that, Rogoff was the Robertson professor of international affairs at Princeton University. He has also served on the staff at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board and as a visiting scholar at the World Bank...