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Everyone blames Israel for the Gazans’ plight. No one talks about the treatment of Gaza’s inhabitants during 19 years of Egyptian rule (1949-67), nor about the fact that, during that period, the Arab world and the international community largely ignored the plight of the residents, who have been deliberately kept in “refugee camps” for close to 60 years instead of being allowed to build new lives for themselves...
...quick glance at the papers told me, however, that I was stuck in the past. The Lega Nord no longer simply spelled federalism and social conservatism. No, this right-wing-populist party had taken a different direction: anti-immigration policy. In fact, in 2002, a politician associated with the party had gone so far as to suggest that immigrants and native Italians should take different trains. And not long after that, Giancarlo Gentili, a Lega member and, at the time, mayor of Treviso, proposed that Italians shoot immigrants like rabbits...
...immediate city, or the blast of fresh air that one gets due to the traverse across to the tiny island, but Pound’s plaque gives a profound sense of relief. Maybe it is the sheer lack of graveyard pomp that calms his visitors, or the quirky fact that he lies in the “Rec Evangelical” (along with many other German, American, and British figures) that makes the pilgrimage to his grave shorn of the formalities of commemorative splendor and ostentation. Here, when one encounters a distinct lack of assured beautification, it does not seem...
...managing editor was supposed to be the friendly face that would guide us through the summer: giving us articles to fact-check, referring us to editors for articles to write, and integrating us with the rest of the staff. He was the one who’d hired us in the first place, interviewed us on the phone or in person. But no one was safe anymore...
...write more. So far, every one of us has been getting at least one or two bylines online a week, sometimes every day. While we were awkwardly relegated to a side room before, now we have desks in the center of the newsroom. We no longer have to fact-check every print article for the week’s paper: Fact-checking (by interns) has been abolished. Now, we simply report and write...