Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Israeli occupation because their lives under occupation are no longer worth living. Had this been Kuwaitis pelting Iraqis with stones, the world would have hailed them as freedom fighting heros. Why are the Palestinians not allowed the same support when they resist occupation? Until Americans understand that occupation is wrong whether it be Iraqi or Israeli, the violence will continue. Until America applies the same standards to Israel that it does to Iraq, and until America gives the same support to the Palestinians that it does to the Kuwaitis, the cycle will continue. Trig Tarazi, Harvard Law School...
...When Peri gets on a streak, everyone can't help but get excited and play better," Co-Captain Carolyn Burger says. "When you do something good, she'll give a high five and a big smile. When you do something wrong, she'll give you a look that makes you want to try harder...
Writing rushed in to fill the void that had been occupied by drugs. Her first sprawling demi-autobiographical outpourings were bound and ungagged between the covers of Postcards in 1987. The gist of the haywire parable is that fame and fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...
...have kids, how glad can you be that the economy is not supporting the parents of their friends, or indeed of oneself? What gives me satisfaction is to see financial events move in a logic that I understand and advocate. I am frustrated not so much by being wrong as by seeing the Bakers and the Bradys and the Greenspans try to manipulate and buy orthodoxy on the cheap. So they are going to do something clever with the G-7, or they are going to pass a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. When I get the numbers wrong...
More important, to be anti-Saddam is not to be pro-West. Many Arabs who condemn Saddam for seizing Kuwait also consider the foreign presence in the gulf an equal if not greater abomination. "Even if Saddam was wrong," says a senior official of a Tunis-based Arab organization, "we can't allow the United States to simply come and destroy a brother Arab state...