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...armed with a club and a dagger, he joined the older moshavniks guarding the fields at night from sporadic attacks by Arab villagers living nearby. "They were not afraid of anything," he observed of the moshavniks, a quality he emulated the rest of his life. He respected the moshavniks' views about the local Arabs: they believed the Arabs had "full rights in the land" but only Jews had rights "over the land." Translation: you can live here, but under...
Well, the songs actually sound like they're about sex. Anything can be romantic. Me, I like to get poppin' with the romance. I'm not ashamed. I'm not afraid...
...Afraid that your annual promise to diet will keep you from your favorite dishes? It's not necessary to exclude any particular foods on this program, says the author, the director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. Instead, control the flavors of your food. Katz counsels that "flavor variety stimulates the appetite center in your brain, while flavor repetition soothes it." Thus, during the first four weeks of the plan, every meal and snack will share a common ingredient. Get ready, for example, for Cranberry Day, with cranberry-banana muffins for breakfast, a salad with cranberries for lunch, cranberry...
...play The Goat, or: Who Is Sylvia, and strong Broadway revivals of his Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles, the first in their class to reach land. Contact, of an edgily entertaining sort, ensues. It's a treat...
...cover more ground underneath the basket.“He certainly played very well tonight in a game where he was up against bigger, stronger people,” Sullivan said. “He got to rebounds out of his space, and he wasn’t afraid to take the ball to the basket.”“The ball just kind of fell to me,” Harris said. “Of course, I have long arms, but most of the time it just involved reaching out. I tried to do whatever...