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It is not surprising that scholars like Levine have begun to bring Jewish religious teaching to bear on the current crisis - which, if not completely about ethics, certainly has a large ethical component. Says Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at New York's Jewish Theological Seminary, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do? | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

I’d love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'How Fiction Works' Works Just Fine, Thank You | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Dorothy’s red heels click incessantly on the screen. They close and open again and again but Dorothy doesn’t budge. But these heels are not going to bring anybody back to Oz—they’re stuck in a continuous loop. No, you?...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lossless Blurs Lines Between Old, New | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

On the webpage where Michael Moore’s latest film, “Slacker Uprising,” is available for free download, Moore writes, “I’m giving you my blanket permission to not only download it, but also to e-mail it, burn...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Slacker Uprising' | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

But not yet. The indefatigable Paulson, along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, this week unveiled a slew of new initiatives to try and restore confidence in the markets. On Tuesday, Bernanke unveiled a plan to try and gig the frozen market for commercial paper, offering to loan companies unlimited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Paulson and Bernanke Running Out of Options? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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