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...King Hussein of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, the two countries that have signed peace treaties with Israel, delivered eulogies. Government ministers from Morocco and the Persian Gulf emirates of Oman and Qatar attended too, even though these Arab states have no diplomatic relations with Israel. The generous sprinkling of red-checkered kaffiyehs and flowing Arab robes among the black mourning wear of Jews gave Israelis watching the funeral on TV visual proof of how far Rabin had progressed in ending Israel's isolation from its neighbors...
...water stay way above--maybe in a yacht--while those who are not, either drown, or if they can, save themselves, by themselves. Not all, or anything close to it, is lost, but America should not lose sight of itself. It must design more life preservers and be more generous in doling them...
...program have no less a "success rate" than the student body at large, even if you cynically consider that Harvard's goal may not be to produce individuals "to serve thy nation and thy kind" but individuals who give large contributions to the institution. PBHA has its share of generous alumni...
After all, as former Toronto Sun editor Barbara Amiel points out, if multiculturalism cannot work in Canada, where can it work? If it cannot work in a country as civil, decent and tolerant as Canada--a country where the majority English speakers have been extraordinarily generous in granting all kinds of cultural protections, subsidies, special rights and privileges to the linguistic minority of French Canada--then where...
...often given real secrets to pass along. The "feed" information is designed to lure the enemy into accepting him so he can begin passing along phony material that will cause them to waste money and resources. During the cold war, the CIA became the master of the feed. So generous was the agency with its information that many KGB officers got big promotions because of the secrets that CIA doubles were passing them along with the disinformation...