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...these distinctions is institutionalized in Israel's Chief Rabbinate: one Ashkenazi, one Sephardi. Elevation of certain Sephardim to high positions-President Yitzhak Navon is a Sephardi-represents a triumph of talent over prejudice, even though more than half of Israel's population are Sephardim. Economic inequities mirror the prejudice. Explains Daniel Shimshoni, director of Israel's neighborhood rehabilitation program: "Most of the residents in depressed neighborhoods, or their parents, came from Middle Eastern or African countries. Of the lower income groups, those of Asian and African origin form the majority...
...arise, the need for aspect. Finally, men and women assert a larger desire for "self-actualization." That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into self-infatuation, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-ends in isolation, the empty "ace that gazes back from the mirror...
...interest in space. Teachers interrupted classes so youngsters could see the landing. Work in offices and factories virtually ceased. Hearing that Columbia was about to touch down, a fitter in a Manhattan men's shop dashed off to the nearest TV set, leaving a customer standing before a mirror all pinned up in an unfinished suit. The Atlanta Constitution's resident cartoonist, Baldy, showed a beaming Uncle Sam emerging out of the shuttle with his arms raised high like a victorious boxer's. Though some editorial writers expressed discomfort about the shuttle's military role, others...
...grandeur, saying 'I can fix it.' I said, 'This is rank treason. Out.' " As it happened, King himself soon became the victim of a coup of sorts. Two days after the Mountbatten meeting, he personally penned a vitriolic anti-Wilson editorial in the Daily Mirror, an I.P.C. paper. The company's board of directors was so incensed that King was fired and Cudlipp installed as chairman...
...Foxes may be a turning point in her career, propelling her toward the stage rather than the screen. After 58 movies in 39 years, her film career seems to be becalmed, if not begone. In the past ten years many of her pictures, from X Y & Zee to The Mirror Crack 'd, have sunk from sight with little more than a gurgle of wasted dollars...