Word: surround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Please surround Bruce Stephens with your loving, healing light. Thank you. Thy will be done. [signed] Mantra." Nurse-practitioner Suzanne Crater taps the SEND panel on her screen, and Bruce Stephens, being prepped for coronary angioplasty in the next room, receives another Duke service: prayer. Crater has entered Stephens' name with the Virtual Jerusalem website, which inserts prayers in that city's Western Wall. She will also e-mail or phone it to Buddhist monks in Nepal, a Carmelite convent near Baltimore, an interdenominational Christian prayer center in Missouri and several other congregations--all of which will entrust it further...
Several International Centers that are closely related to the social sciences will surround the Knafel Center...
...about 10 other manufacturers to showroom floors--and the first digital broadcasts will begin in a little over a month. This much anticipated debut would seem to be terrific news for tube lovers. As promised, the sets deliver supersharp digital pictures, wide-format movie-style screens and magnificent stereo surround sound. And thanks to the content-neutral nature of digital signals--"Bits are bits," they like to say in TV circles these days--you could wind up seeing web pages and e-mail on your HDTV...
...that time of year again. At least, it soon will be. Commencement is still a good eight months away, but various groups on campus are already preparing for the annual circus that will surround Harvard this June. The year-book committee is signing up seniors to have portraits taken. Elections are under way for Harvard and Radcliffe Class Marshals. And soon, the College will start trying to coax students to give to the Senior Gift Fund...
Perhaps there is no other way here--to build barriers would be to rip up every Israeli neighborhood with fences, to surround all historic areas with walls. Lively modern Israel, its stores, pastimes and errands, just can't wait. But more likely it is a conscious choice: politicians, rabbis, sheiks--they too are human, and cannot live and be believed in a vacuum. Just ask George Washington about how accessible King George III was. Adam I. Arenson '00-'01, a Crimson editor, is spending the year in Jerusalem...