A “Green Oak in a Thirsty Land”

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-58
Author(s):  
Rolf Swensen

After the passing in 1910 of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the rapidly increasing Christian Science movement, the governing Christian Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church in Boston faced the daunting task of unifying the sometimes unruly and overly exuberant members of a faith noted for its efforts to reintroduce healing to the religious scene. This essay demonstrates that over the next fifteen years the Directors skillfully consolidated their authority and so established centralized control over the fastest-growing religious group in the United States. Divisive litigation between the Directors and the independent-minded Trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society, 1919–1921, was resolved in favor of the Directors and so provided the capstone for their efforts to bring order to the new faith. In their actions, the Directors often followed business and societal practices, as a means of attaining routinization of charisma.

Author(s):  
Lorraine Eden

For more than ten years now, transfer pricing has been the top international taxation issue faced by multinational enterprises (MNEs). This article aims to outline, for the reader, the complex issue of transfer pricing, as seen by MNE managers and by governments faced with the daunting task of taxing business profits. The article is organized as follows. First, it briefly discusses transfer pricing from the MNE's perspective and the problems that this raises for national governments. It then reviews the basic rules of international taxation as they apply to MNE profits. The specific rules and procedures that apply to transfer pricing, as practiced in the United States and recommended by the OECD, are then outlined. It concludes with a discussion of unresolved problems that are likely to plague transfer pricing over the next few years.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ian Rubin

Despite over 4,000 years of persecution, American Jews and antisemitism continue to be overlooked in university multicultural and social justice classroom discussions. This is due to many factors, such as the misconceptions that Jews are solely a religious group, are White and have completely assimilated into American culture, and are economically successful. Jews are a distinctive group in the United States who continue to experience racism and oppression. In order to validate the racism and discrimination of Jews in the United States, university multicultural and social justice programs must begin to discuss the issues pertaining to antisemitism. 


1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (229) ◽  
pp. 221-221

Mr. Guillaume Bordier, former vice-president and an honorary member of the ICRC, died on 9 July 1982.Mr. Bordier was born in Geneva in 1901 and did his schooling there. He continued his studies at the Federal Polytechnicum in Zurich where he graduated in engineering. He then went on to study economics in the United States and received his “Master of Business Administration” degree from the University of Harvard in 1929. On his return to Geneva he joined the Banque Bordier et O in an executive capacity and later became a partner in the bank. He was a member of the Swiss Bankers' Association and sat on the Board of Directors of a number of companies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Loyde Anne Carreiro Silva Veras ◽  
Evelyn De Almeida Orlando

Este artigo parte de uma análise do livro 8:28, a autobiografia de Eva Yarwood Mills publicada em 1976, em Lancaster, Estados Unidos. Eva Mills veio da Inglaterra para o Brasil como uma missionária protestante no período de 1928 a 1959, aposentando-se nos Estados Unidos. A partir da materialidade do 8:28, procuramos identificar os sentidos acionados pela autora nas representações tanto de si quanto do grupo religioso ao qual ela pertencia. Conjuntamente exploramos os elementos do pacto autobiográfico e discutimos as estratégias acionadas a partir da relação entre editor, autora-narradora-personagem e público leitor. Identificamos uma narrativa rica em sentidos e caminhos de possíveis análises, capazes de suscitar questões relevantes, como as estratégias usadas na representação de uma vida, os usos da autobiografia na construção identitária de um sujeito e do grupo que faz parte e o lugar da educação na vida desta personagem. Apesar de Eva Mills ser uma professora e construir-se por meio da educação, é na relação com o grupo religioso da sua velhice que ela se reelabora enquanto missionária e legitima-se como educadora a serviço de uma missão protestante europeia-americana (auto)definida como civilizadora.Palavras-chave: Educação. Autobiografia. Protestantismo.AbstractThis article is an analysis of the book 8:28, the autobiography of Eva Yarwood Mills published in 1976, in Lancaster, United States. Eva Mills lived and worked in Brazil as a Protestant missionary from 1928 to 1959 and she retired to the United States. From the book's materiality, identifying the author's senses in the representations of both himself and the religious group to which he belongs. We explore the elements of the autobiographical pact and discuss the strategies with which they are triggered from the relationship between publisher, author-character and readership. We identified in this research a book rich in analyses paths, capable of raising important questions such as the strategies used in the representation of a life, the uses of autobiography in the identity construction of a subject and the group to which he belongs and the roles which education assumes in the life of this character from his place of belonging. Although Eva Mills is a teacher and building herself through education, it is in the relationship with the religious group of her old age that she reelaborates as a missionary and legitimizes herself as an educator who has been in the service of a mission European-American Protestant (self)defined as a civilizer.Keywords: Education. Autobiography. Protestantism. ResumenEste artículo es un análisis del libro 8:28, la autobiografía de Eva Yarwood Mills publicada en 1976, en Lancaster, Estados Unidos. Eva Mills vivió y trabajó en Brasil como misionera protestante desde 1928 hasta 1959 y se retiró a los Estados Unidos. De la materialidad del libro, identificar los sentidos del autor en las representaciones de él mismo y del grupo religioso al que pertenece. Exploramos los elementos del pacto autobiográfico y discutimos las estrategias con las cuales se desencadenan a partir de la relación entre editor, autor-personaje y lectores. Identificamos en esta investigación un libro rico en posibles direcciones y análisis, capaz de plantear preguntas importantes como las estrategias utilizadas en la representación de una vida, los usos de la autobiografía en la construcción de identidad de un sujeto y el grupo al que pertenece y los roles que la educación asume en la vida de este personaje desde su lugar de pertenencia. Aunque Eva Mills es maestra y se está forjando a través de la educación, es en la relación con el grupo religioso de su vejez que reelabora como misionera y se legitima como educadora que ha estado al servicio de una misión protestante europeo-estadounidense (auto)definida como civilizadora.Palabras-clave: Educación. Autobiografía. Protestantismo.


AmeriQuests ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Percy DeWitt

David M. O’Brien’s Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the Supreme Court serves as a significant contribution to the field of First Amendment Law by offering an overview of crucial issues and, moreover, by emphasizing the outlook for the future of free speech. O’Brien’s credentials position him favorably for the task; he was a judicial fellow and research associate with the Supreme Court, he has written numerous articles and books on the Supreme Court, and he is currently the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Considering the daunting task of compiling a succinct account and analysis of the history of free speech in the United States, Professor O’Brien does well to allow readers to better understand the complexities of free speech policy in the United States.


1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Jones

The results of development are now widely thought to have betrayed expectations. Using illustrations from Bolivia, this essay argues that these dispiriting results often owe to distortions that render development something other than what it pretends to be, or is usually understood to be. The distortions derive from the use of inappropriate mental constructs, from links to foreign policy, from "expert" ignorance, and from weak sensitivity by development agencies to how their interventions are construed by local economic and power elites. While these agencies have formal mechanisms to correct some of the distortions, the mechanisms too often fail to work. Correcting these distortions is a daunting task, rooted as they are deep in national institutions and conceptions of national interest. The end of the Cold War nonetheless affords an auspicious moment for doing so. Indeed, not to is to risk turmoil in regions like Latin America. Yet international capitalist powers and local elites are not seizing the moment; exulting in victory, they continue down old paths. Further alarming is the anti-aid sentiment in the United States and Europe, with consequent political advocacy ranging from abolishment to varying degrees of reform under large budget cuts.


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