Theremrs"s pray, party and a lot else to do, it turns out, in both metropolises. Unfortunately, many pilgrims miss much of Israelirs"s sophisticated arts and culture scene. For the traveler who ventures off the beaten pilgrim track, there are many rewards in active play and cultural satisfaction.
The Washington Nationals were thrust into the center of the faith and sports debate in 2005 when a Washington Post article described how team chaplain Jon Moeller, who gathered the teams for prayer and distributed religious pamphlet, told one player that all Jews go to hell. Local rabbis seethed at Moeller’s statement and put pressure on team officials to discipline Moeller.
But let me tell you a little secret, folks. Even though they're scurrying around like everyone else in this game, I think the crisis managers at the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury have quietly adopted a technique that has helped us deal with previous financial crises - what I call the b"play and prayg" approach.
They don't teach it in Economics 101, and none of the players dealing with the current meltdown will talk about it on the record. But it's a time-tested strategy - think of the mortgage crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the bank problems in the early 1990s, and the Asian contagion of the late 1990s. The idea: You play for time by keeping things afloat long enough for your prayers to be answered by the markets' turning in the right direction.
