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...anymore, not in New York's new normal. People just accept what happens now: We're alive, others are not, we have no right to complain. There's no profit in impatience. Broken trains and cold dinners are trivial matters, and we finally know it. One man turned to his wife on the new train and said quietly, "We should call Myra, tell her we'll be late." That...
...stalwart support of Israel: politically (notably at the U.N.), economically ($840 million in aid annually) and militarily ($3 billion more, plus access to advanced U.S. weapons). To a majority of Arabs, Israel, as a Jewish state, is an unwelcome, alien entity. Even to those who accept its existence, Israel is an oppressor of Arab rights; despite the Oslo peace process, it still occupies most of the Palestinian territories. Particularly egregious to Muslims is Israel's control over Islamic shrines in Jerusalem, the third most sacred city to Islam...
...sash across her chest. "When my daughter wore a dupatta (veil), I saw tears in her eyes," says Attiya. She can empathize: as a teenager, she was forced by Aslam to wear the all-enveloping burka whenever she went out in public. In a poem titled I Do Not Accept This, she writes: "Every woman knows/ That respectability is not simply/ Wearing a dupatta on your head/ Which you, Khomeini-style/ Order us to wear...
...stipulates that candidates who accept only small donations (under $100) will be eligible for state campaign funding...
...main agendas is affordable housing. We as a city should not accept a system where having a child is an economic liability,” Peixoto