Word: desertion
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...Joan Peters published From Time Immemorial, which claimed that Palestine was virtually empty on the eve of Zionist colonization, and that Palestinians are in fact foreigners who surreptitiously entered Palestine after the Zionists “made the desert bloom.” The book is now widely recognized as a fraud. Baruch Kimmerling (of the Hebrew University) and Joel S. Migdal, in their authoritative study, Palestinians: The Making of a People, published by Harvard University Press, observe that Peters’s book is “based on materials out of context, and on distorted evidence...
...answer: most of them won’t, and you’ll still see them here in six years’ time, working on Ph.D.s, or enrolling at the Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact, I’m certainly ready to leave Harvard behind. No disrespect to my roommate, but from now on if I live with someone, I had better be dating her. No, the question...
...answer: most of them won’t, and you’ll still see them here in six years’ time, working on Ph.D.s, or enrolling at the Divinity School.) The notion that Harvard is an oasis of perfection in the midst of a barren and inhospitable desert has always seemed to me, and continues to seem, somewhat naïve and cowardly. In fact, I’m certainly ready to leave Harvard behind. No disrespect to my roommate, but from now on if I live with someone, I had better be dating her. No, the question...
...police insisted it was a model bust. They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...spent her nine consecutive semesters off “finding herself” in various ways, including suckling orphaned Orangutan babes in Indonesia, working the concession stand at a sex show in Amsterdam and undertaking an 87-day “vision quest” in the Mojave Desert. When asked if she would finally be making her return to the list of enrolled students, Woods replied, “no, I’m just here for breakfast.” Woods will spend the coming semester petitioning to get breakfast counted toward her core requirements...