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Conventional wisdom once held that a terror attack on Israeli civilians on a day when diplomats were meeting to discuss the fate of the Middle East was a deliberate attempt by extremists to disrupt the peace process. That theory may no longer apply...
...best place to keep their money over the long run. Academic theory - oft repeated by stockbrokers - held that stocks returned an average of more than 7 percentage points a year over risk-free government bills, and nearly always outdid bonds in any 20-year period. Yet this conventional wisdom may not be a reliable guide to the future, for Americans or anyone else. In a landmark new study, The Triumph of the Optimists, a trio of London Business School researchers crunched stock market data for 16 nations over the past 100 years. They found that after stretching the record back...
...Kopperud spins some memorable scenes: a desert girl in a white T shirt dancing to Bob Marley, a boy monk in a burnished temple dispensing wisdom with a marble. The best of these freight the tale with visual and emotional meaning. Longing needs the ballast. Kopperud has a philosophy student's weakness for spiraling, unanswerable rhetorical queries...
...visits, bearing a radical new eschatology. Darby and minister Cyrus Scofield, who would expand the evangelist's ideas in the vastly influential Scofield Reference Bible, divided God's relationship with man into seven ages (the current sixth began with the death of Christ). Their vision grimly upended the previous wisdom. Far from getting ever better, things on earth would progressively worsen, until the Antichrist, also known as the Beast, arose. A seven-year, hell-like Tribulation would begin, survived by only a small human remnant. Not until then would Christ return, defeat the Antichrist and commence his Millennium. Much...
...home on the sixth floor. It's a busy night for the self-improvement crowd. But the main attraction on this Tuesday night in late June is holding forth in the auditorium. There, more than 2,000 people have gathered to see a man whom they believe possesses unsurpassed wisdom and power. In their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan that he alone can avert. "Asai sensei understands" says Kazuhito Suzuki, a disillusioned, young construction worker who professes...