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...Sacco reminds us, for example, that the vast majority of Gazans are refugees driven out of their homes on Israel's coastal plain in the war of 1948, and barred from returning. And in one of the most startling observations in the book, he shows that Israeli leaders understood exactly why the Palestinians of Gaza would turn to violence. He quotes General Moshe Dayan, Israel's most celebrated military commander, at the April 1956 funeral of a kibbutznik slain by Palestinian fedayeen near the Gaza border, warning Israelis that they faced an intractable conflict that they had no choice...
...very personal one. He harbors a pugnacious indignation against history as data gathering, preferring the work of popular historians like McCullough, Ambrose, Barbara Tuchman and Doris Kearns Goodwin. He wants viewers to identify with their ancestors, allowing them to ponder the prevalence of moral ambiguity, human willpower and plain dumb luck in shaping the past. And he wants to be transported back in time, with a Sousa band banging the drum loudly...
...Filling a Critical Gap Google fills software gaps as much through acquisitions as it does with engineering. After buying plain-Jane photo-management service Picasa in 2004, Google bought Neven Vision in 2006 to spice Picasa up with facial recognition. But after Yahoo! snatched up Flickr in 2005, Picasa never caught on as broadly as its competitors. Even as digital photography has exploded, Picasa has continued to lack sophisticated editing capabilities, making Picnik a crucial acquisition...
...that the study guides posted on it should be taken at their word. These guides are created by students and are subject to individual student interpretation (or misinterpretation) of course content. Since there is no oversight from course instructors or TFs, some material on study guides might be just plain wrong. Any student who decides to use a study guide as a replacement for attending class or doing readings does so at his or her own risk...
While overall the show’s dialogue remains rather predictable and plain, a brief scene between Zazu and Scar allows time for the exchange of a few clever remarks. As a depressed Scar complains about his now famine-and-disease plagued kingdom, he moans, “I feel so empty,” to which the disdainful Zazu quips, “You’re a regular Ennui the Eighth, sire.” Later in the same scene, when Scar tries to rally himself by insisting, “I need to buck...