Word: act
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...Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been creeping close to agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount, at least 80 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured, mostly Palestinians...
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a refugee is entitled to asylum if he or she faces "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like De Santiago seeking permission to stay, or what is officially known as the "withholding of removal." In recent years, the definition of a social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled...
...SOCIETY, Sept. 25]. Are we so blind as to think that a child cannot see through parents' fake smiles? You cannot blame divorce for children's problems. A bad marriage will stay a bad marriage whether it continues or ends in divorce. What is most important is that parents act like adults and get along as mother and father forever, even if they are no longer husband and wife. NATALIE CARKNER Cary...
...child of divorce, and I consider myself blessed. My parents acted like civilized adults when it came to me. They didn't use me as a Ping-Pong ball or as a vehicle to hurt each other. This is the key: what matters is not the divorce but how the parents act in the aftermath...
...rhyme) deals with the dreaded dilemma of being the new kid in school. "The other kids laughed, gee this new boy was weird./ Too different and strange to fit in they all feared." While the students at first seem almost perversely indifferent to the new boy's discomfort, an act of kindness soon shows them that just giving someone a chance is all that's needed to make a new friend...