Word: 60th
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...Israel marks its 60th birthday, its citizens would seem to have plenty to celebrate. Situated on a patch of stony land, democratic Israel has endured the ravages of war and terrorism and an assortment of enemies sworn to destroy it. Israelis have managed to revive Hebrew, a 4,000-year-old language, and turn it into a vibrant instrument of elegant novelists and growling rappers. In cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, the high-tech industry has produced years of robust growth and fostered a culture of creativity and inventiveness that is the envy of the Middle East...
Bush travels to Israel for the country's 60th anniversary May 14, and Israel has threatened to reinvade Hamas' Gaza stronghold if it launches new attacks. A Hamas-provoked Israeli incursion would undermine pro-peace players on both sides and enrage Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which are key to negotiations. And it would cast Carter's latest peacemaking mission into the loss column...
...Gaza and Egypt, making themselves, not Abbas or Israel, real liberators in the eyes of many Arabs and Palestinians, and making a paper-only deal seem like just that. Though Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues to work the issue ahead of Bush's trip to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary in mid-May, even White House spokesperson Dana Perino admits, "We have a hell of a lot of work...
...spread," wrote TIME almost 60 years ago to the day. "Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground. The most promising was Hudson Review, edited by three young Princeton alumni." Well, ahem, we know how to call it. THE HUDSON REVIEW puts out its 60th-anniversary edition this month, celebrating its longevity with a concert at the Guggenheim Museum and a book, Writes of Passage. The Review, which promised at its inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation," is not the biggest...
...Without a context, it tells exactly the opposite story of what it should be telling. The Arab war against Israel is now in its 60th year,” she said. “Soldiers who want to break the silence ought to remind us of why they have to be fighting in the first place, and that context is entirely missing from the exhibit...