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After reading the piece by Sara Roy in your Commencement Issue (“The Peril of Forgetting Gaza,” Opinion, June 4), I must express my bewilderment that the well-respected Crimson would allow such a one-sided piece to be printed. Ms. Roy fails to mention major facts that have contributed to the tragic condition of Gaza’s people since...
...intifadeh, or Palestinian uprising, started, and there has been fighting and mayhem ever since. The same ingenuity that Gazans show during these hard times - running their cars on used vegetable oil when gas is cut off or rebuilding houses out of mud bricks because Israel has yet to allow in construction materials after its last offensive - applies to running the Al Deira. "Of course we thought of shutting down. But we have loyalty to Gaza and to our employees," says Skaik, who tells his staff, "Leave your problems at the door. Come in with a smile. The guests expect...
...Thirteen years after the end of the tests in the Pacific, the bill I am presenting today is to allow our country to serenely close a chapter of its history," Defense Minister Hervé Morin told the lower house on June 25, as he proposed the legislation for debate. "France showed its greatness in the political, strategic challenge that brought us into the very small circle of nuclear powers. It must show greatness in its determination to repair its mistakes...
...protection to the establishment of a coordinating council of regulators--where our plan puts in place measures that would have made it more unlikely for things to get as far out of hand as they did in this recent crisis. And we do it in a way that will allow us to get the upside of market-driven innovation while protecting against the downside risk of market excesses...
...democratically elected President who has enfranchised Venezuela's poor but has been widely criticized for undermining the nation's other branches of government, won a referendum that lets him seek re-election indefinitely. (Other Latin Presidents, like Bolivia's Evo Morales, have also pushed through constitutional changes allowing them to seek additional terms.) Zelaya, whose term ends early next year (he's limited to one), had hoped to hold an informal, nonbinding plebiscite on Sunday to gauge whether Hondurans want to change their national charter and allow, among other things, more than one term for Presidents. But the Supreme Court...