Word: braves
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...would enter through Jaffa Gate and walk through the narrow market on David Street dividing the Jewish and Arab quarters, and then decide whether to explore the recently renovated Jewish neighborhood or to brave the suspicions and hostile gazes of the Arab section.Ever since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, this quintessentially inter-mixed and inter-woven city has become increasingly segregated, with less and less Jewish-Arab interaction. As these eternal inhabitants of this city have become more and more distant, suspicions and hostilities have grown, with no interlocutor to explain misunderstandings, no middle ground...
...such a safe and cliched form of rebellion for the town to fall for. Yes, he rides his cycle without a helmet, but he is just a nice, handsome, kind, brave white boy who doesn't even use profanity in his raps. He is Elvis in gang clothes and sunglasses, but without the talent. The Black sidekicks, on the other hand, literally sit in a garage for three-quarters of the movie, away from the white town, hidden away from the impressionable and seducable white kids...
Anita Hill does not come off as a sociopath. She comes off as a brave, suffering and credible witness. She passed a lie detector test. She is a well-respected law professor. She has four credible witnesses testifying that she had told them about her difficulties with Clarence Thomas when they began...
Hill "comes off as a brave, suffering and credible witness," the majority says. Only the most biased observer could argue that Thomas did not. I wanted to believe Hill. I wanted not to believe Thomas. But even though he's dodged questions before and asserted idiotically that he never thought about Roe, I cannot say with certainty that I "believe" he is lying...
...course. I have been privileged enough to know people who are real heroes; there're not many left in the world, but there are some. The ones I've known aren't perfect human beings. They're immensely brave, brave beyond any dreams that I or perhaps you could ever have, and their view of life is so incredibly self-sacrificing. But they are not always saints in their love life, in their life as parents or as children of parents, or even in the friendships of normal life. In other words, they are human and full of faults...