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...King Hussein to fundamentalist Muslims who advocate an Islamic state patterned after Iran. Since 1967, the Israelis have established some 100 settlements in the occupied territories that now house 30,000 Jewish settlers. Surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed men, the settlements have added an abrasive element to an already tense situation...
...generally taken the opposite tack: to yank the past into the present so forcibly that time has virtually no demarcations. Part of the Passover ritual is the exhortation that everyone in each generation feel he personally has just gone out of Egypt. The presentness of death is a central element of Judaism. The various prayers of lamentation, the practice of shivah (the seven-day period of mourning), the published announcements of grief, all lie at the heart of a faith that looks solely to this world for redemption...
...family that earns $40,000 a year, this year's almost doubled payments--now totalling $11,500--have caused "a lot of anxiety and family friction. They didn't have to spend this much on anyone else." Her younger sister will go to a public college. Another element of Damplo's situation, while not uncommon, tends to complicate matters with the financial aid office: Because of high costs and numerous siblings, she splits all costs with her parents fifty-fifty, a method with which Harvard's system of determining grant, family contribution, and self-help package does not necessarily coincide...
Despite some minor eccentricities, Michael Graves' building makes primary that element most wanting in a Bauhaus-inspired glass box: human scale...
Even if these were the only ingredients, the story would still be intriguing enough for a Robert Ludlum thriller. But an added element is making the scandal that has rocked the world of international finance one of the most compelling real-life mysteries of the century: the involvement of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (I.O.R.), better known as the Vatican bank...