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...utilization of antitrust suits against Microsoft's steamrolling growth has been overdue for years. Any company that holds a near monopoly over a vital aspect of the booming computer industry (the Windows operating system) and continues to grow at a ravenous pace is due for a reality check...
There will always be Harvard and Radcliffe students who believe that PBHA has strayed too far to the left or to the right. PBHA has been most vital at the times when all students have felt that they could work there and argue peaceably with one another over how best to improve our little community at Harvard, and the larger one beyond it. Whether they teach a class of 5th graders, poster for a rally, find housing for a welfare recipient, or chain themselves to a statue in protest, I hope that they will act on behalf of others without...
Then two things changed. A postwar Israeli burst of Kabbalah scholarship yielded modern Hebrew translations and annotations of vital texts. And seekers appeared. Many younger congregants yearning for individual spirituality became impatient with American Reform and Conservative Judaism's longtime emphasis on communal concerns such as Israel and synagogue building. Some left; some explored Eastern meditation. And some, notes author Rodger Kamenetz, decided that "Kabbalah is the poetic language of the Jewish soul...
...Friday night, the overture, though clearly supported by a few more able performers, sounded sadly under-rehearsed. Expression was lacking; even a real sense of unity among the different instruments and the certainty vital to any performance were surprisingly absent...
...Another vital economic indicator came in Thursday from the Labor Department. Initial jobless claims in the U.S. grew by 20,000 last week. Wall Street was hoping the unemployment rate would hold steady. That's bad news for workers, but good news for inflation. The 24-year low 4.7 percent monthly unemployment rate announced on November 7 had been giving analysts heart attacks...