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...situation is extremely difficult for the people who really live here. In fact, the malevolence of the situation is worse than can ever be captured in those fantastic 30-second television shots. The suffering and uncertainty are constant, everyday and unspectacular. While CNN captures the moments when the violence boils over, it cannot capture the daily grind of conflict: emotions of fear, uncertainty, anger and frustration. Every Palestinian is not out in the street, head wrapped in a kafeeyah, throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. But Palestinians do live with constant uncertainty as to whether the Israelis will arbitrarily alter their...
...closure of the West Bank so they might earn enough money to provide their children with food for the first time in several days. I know children who have missed untold amounts of school because of curfews. None of these events make their way onto CNN because they are unspectacular compared to the short bursts of violence. Nonetheless, these events affect Palestinian life just as much as the dramatic scenes that make the news. The Palestinians live in constant fury that their combination of everyday inconvenience and widespread trauma seems to illicit no response from the outside world...
...fairly certain there had been a little hanky-panky back in the ballot boxes of Texas and Illinois. He did grudgingly and reluctantly, but he did it. And then he ran successfully just eight years later. Assuming that Bush survives his first term and performs in an unspectacular fashion, you could conceivably be ensconced in the Oval Office by January...
...like immigrant visas for highly skilled workers--important to business, but not the hottest of hot buttons for voters--while telephone calls from constituents went unanswered and party donors could not so much as get a ticket from his office for a White House tour. Going into 2000 with unspectacular poll ratings, he was targeted by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents...
...like immigrant visas for highly skilled workers - important to business, but not the hottest of hot buttons for voters - while telephone calls from constituents went unanswered and party donors could not so much as get a ticket from his office for a White House tour. Going into 2000 with unspectacular poll ratings, he was targeted by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents...