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...always wanted him ot join the Rabbinate," said Gell;s clergyman, Rabbi M. Robert Syme of Temple Israel. "His brilliance of mind is accompanied by a beauty of character...
...will the current state of play effect Bush in November? "A lot depends on whether the peace process is perceived as actually moving," says Rabbi Daniel Syme of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. "In Bush's favor is the fact that for the first time, speedy progress is in everyone's interest. Israel's economy desperately needs the loan guarantees, so Rabin will do what he must to get them. The Arabs, as the saying goes, have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but they clearly want to help Bush too." That's right, says a Saudi...
...strongest prognosticators of cancer, mental illness and suicide, she found, was "lack of closeness to parents" and a negative attitude toward one's family. A 1978 study of 7,000 people in Alameda County, Calif., confirmed the importance of social support. Epidemiologist Leonard Syme of Berkeley, Calif., who conducted the study, found that even after adjusting for such factors as smoking and histories of major illnesses, people with few close contacts were dying two to three times faster than those who regularly turned to their friends...
...cast-iron, enameled Lange and Mørso from Denmark and the Jøtul from Norway. One American manufacturer that assembles stoves of comparable quality is a down-home outfit called Vermont Castings, Inc. Two unfounded foundrymen started the firm four years ago in tiny Randolph, Vt. Duncan Syme, 42, was a sculptor with an M.F.A. degree from Yale, and Murray Howell, 34, was a bar owner and construction worker. Their meticulously crafted Defiant and Vigilant models, designed in elegant Federal period lines and selling for $575 and $470, are as prized by their owners as if they were antique automobiles...
...does not yield to simple theological analysis. Sunday may be God; he may just as easily be Satan or the State. The council is a satiric conceit; it is also a social prophecy that antedates Kafka's The Trial by 15 years and the CIA by two generations. Syme's story rings with the sonorities of the Book of Job. It is also a splendid detective yarn...