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...miles away, in the escarpment village of Shomela, Gabriel Peretz, the owner-with his wife, Ada-of a bed and breakfast bemoaned the latest violence. "The situation is very bad," he said from his garden. Israeli artillery fire and its crack-boom followed by a lingering zing of the outgoing shell punctuated his sentences. "We've had six years of peace, but everything has come back to us. All the fear and the bad economics." As Peretz spoke, loudspeakers in the village called for residents to get into hardened shelters immediately. He and Ada ignored them...
...Kathy Podgers illustrates her complaints about Cambridge’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with personal anecodotes...
...Using curb ramps that are noncompliant with the ADA as an example, Podgers compares the situation of disabled individuals to that of African-Americans before the Civil Rights Movement...
...MONDZELEWSKI V. PATHMARK (1998) In support of a butcher who claimed to have been treated unfairly by his employer, Pathmark, Alito's broad interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) led him to conclude that Joseph Mondzelewski's back injury constituted a serious limitation that entitled him to ADA workplace protections. Writing for the majority, Alito ruled that Pathmark wrongfully punished Mondzelewski by reprimanding him unreasonably and giving him the worst working shifts...
...present threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate, would read to her from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal, and when Sandra was 5 years old she went to El Paso, Texas, where she lived with her grandmother and went to Radford, a private girls' school...