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...further expose people to classical music, which the Yings admit can “seem separate from society,” the quartet sponsors LifeMusic, a project that commissions pieces from relatively unknown composers with “a distinctively American?? sound that any audience can relate to. David cites that these “musical experiments” and collaborative efforts—including an unusual collaboration with Phish—have helped the quartet sustain the magic during their career...
Mendy plans to escape to Florida with Sasha once they marry, using his U.S. passport—his mother is American??and her money. But the characters Mendy has met get in the way. They make Mendy doubt Sasha’s love for him, and, in his disillusionment, he tries to return to his family and the safe Hasidic world he left behind. In this world of ideologies gone wild, however, going home is not an option. Mendy’s adventures in the real world end with a bomb he unwittingly helped smuggle across a checkpoint...
...response that drew applause, Lieberman cited the recent arrest of almost 800 immigrants and foreign nationals as an “un-American?? abuse of the government’s power. The best thing about the PATRIOT Act, Lieberman, said, was that Congress had installed a sunset clause...
...unconscionable that we could export $87 billion to Iraq to improve schools and healthcare while American??s are not having their fundamental rights and basic living conditions needs met. Remember, 75 million Americans right now are without health insurance, over 40 million are underinsured and millions of Americans here at home attempt to learn in overcrowded, crumbling schools...
...Staff is right that the U.S.—and not Iraqi citizens—must pay for the rebuilding since the U.S. started the war and destroyed much of Iraq’s infrastructure. But that money must go to international—not Anglo-American??peacekeepers and contractors to help mend America’s ties to key international allies. Iraq is going to need a lot of outside attention for several years before democracy takes root, and the U.N. must be the primary governing force for the long haul