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...closing ceremony took place at Judaism's holiest shrine, the Wailing Wall. There, the 4,000 from abroad were joined by an equal number of Israelis. As 6,000 candles flickered-each representing a thousand Jewish victims-Prime Minister Menachem Begin made an impassioned Zionist plea to the visitors to "come and bring your children to Israel." With that, the survivors dispersed, singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah-The Hope. -By Patricia Blake, Reported by Marlin Levin/Jerusalem
...Harvard is the temple of the case method, the Gothic towers at the University of Chicago form the shrine of pure theory. "The case-study method is only a concoction that looks realistic," scoffs Eugene Fama, who teaches a notoriously tough lecture course in finance. "It's like an electronic hockey game that can never produce real hockey players." Chicago's first-year core courses cover statistics, managerial accounting, microeconomics and macroeconomics. The second-year electives put the theories to work: applied econometrics, financial instruments, application of finance theory. Though the emphasis on theory is heavy, Chicago officials...
...Boston is a large shrine to prepdom, not a city," she said, calling Brattle Street's Club Casablanca the nation's preppy mecca...
...furniture, some secondhand, was provided by the I.R.C.: two double beds, three single beds, a table, a chest of drawers and seven chairs for the seven siblings. The walls are bare except for a Buddhist shrine. It is cold. The Trinhs' apartment has been getting little heat during New York City's cold winter...
...energy producers have been squabbling among themselves all year. Saudi Arabia and Libya broke off diplomatic relations last October when Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi urged Muslims not to make their annual pilgrimage to Mecca because he claimed that the shrine had been desecrated by U.S. radar surveillance planes flying overhead. And after the outbreak of the war between Iran and Iraq, the cartel had to cancel a gala meeting in Baghdad in November that was to have celebrated the group's 20th anniversary...