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...negotiation process, the Israelis are going to make all the decisions, and they will find they've painted themselves into a corner," says Marina Ottaway of the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The obligations of governing "may force Hamas to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream world they are in, that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth." If Hamas can make that leap, Israel will find Hamas a tougher but more credible negotiating partner than Arafat ever...
...that constitute one's first universe. Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. Yet home, like parentage, must be legitimized through love; otherwise, it is only a fact of geography or biology. Most immigrants to America found their love of their old homes betrayed ... They did not really abandon their countries; their countries abandoned them. In America, they found the possibility of a new love, the chance to nurture new selves. --TIME, July...
...leadership aides say they expect Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida to vote for Alito, joined by Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Blanche Lincoln of Nebraska is on the fence, and the betting is that anywhere from 5 to 10 Democrats will abandon ship and vote with the Republicans. While not as dramatic a Republican win as the 78-22 blowout in favor of Chief Justice John Roberts last fall, the Alito vote won't be the squeaker Democrats were predicting during his hearings earlier this month...
...other aspects of our world as permanent as well. Widespread hunger, devastating epidemics, intolerable unemployment, savagely unequal schools that lead to the mass incarceration of people of color—all these horrors come to be seen as inevitable, or even natural. So many of us here have already abandoned our youthful idealism, have implicitly accepted the futility of imagining alternatives to the world that exists—never mind attempting to bring them to fruition. What dreams we are allowed to have are simply manufactured, ready for our willing consumption. Enticed by fifty-cent fantasies, more than...
...there must be some way to solve this problem. Being able to open the windows would be a start, or recognizing that Harvard students blow off quite enough hot air on our own without such extensive help from central heating. Instead, those that don’t abandon the hot slog are left to swelter in a study-sauna of their own making. The stifling air has some obvious adverse effects. Passing through the reading room near dawn is almost surreal. Slumped figures drool unattractively onto their course-packs, cursing their professors in slurred whispers. Having arrived optimistically the night...