What’s in a Name? What’s in a Number?

March 31, 2010

Julia Suryakusuma
The writer is the author of Julia’s Jihad. She can be contacted at www.juliasuryakusuma.com

WHAT’S in a name? You’re probably familiar with that famous rhetorical question Shakespeare put in the mouth of Juliet.

But maybe Juliet should have been asking about numbers. There’s usually a lot hanging on them too—even the zeros (if only we could add a few more to our salaries, right?). And that’s especially true when

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