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...does is feed procrastination,” said Grille patron Joanna S.B. O’Leary ’03, with mozzarella sticks in hand...
There is an eerie effortlessness to the way in which fights picked by scriptural revisionists hundreds of years ago feed today's psychology of mutual victimhood. The Jewish Theological Seminary's Magid describes a 1st century tradition in which Ishmael is a bully and Isaac "becomes the persecuted younger brother." That belief has persisted. "The Muslims are very aggressive, like Ishmael," an Israeli settler tells Feiler. "And the Jews are very passive, like Isaac, who nearly allows himself to be killed without talking back. That's why they are killing us, because we don't fight back." Arafat's religious...
...Even so, the overall effect of the book is nothing short of heartbreaking. Children are abused and gang-raped. Smart women are given away in marriage to Party members who are manipulative brutes. Others are forced to wallow in abject poverty, scraping together whatever they can to feed themselves and their families. At several points, the agony and suffering here may become too overbearing for even the strongest soul; some readers will likely need to reach for a tissue and take a moment to recover from the wretched misery...
...their class lists and approve students all at once. The registrar might even save money in the long run. Although we would have to wait until finals in January to see those old folks behind the tables, I’m sure Harvard’s dungeon keepers would feed them well in the meantime...
...Since then, Castro has paid cash for more than $100 million in additional food and livestock feed shipments, whetting the appetite of U.S. agribusiness giants like ADM and Cargill, as well as Midwestern farmers. By 2005, say optimistic forecasts, the total could reach $1.4 billion, raising Cuba from 51st to around 30th among countries that buy food products from the U.S. As a result, Congress is now considering whether to drop the cash-only requirement...