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...mail, Stona lists the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Opera Boston, and the Bank of America Celebrity Series as groups that buy air time for advertisement. Although businesses like Massive Records also buy air time, Siegfried is quick to assert that “everyone at the station knows that classical music is the reason people have a budget...
Walt and Mearsheimer assert that “the creation of Israel involved crimes against...the Palestinians,” an assertion that Dershowitz attacks...
...opportunity—not a handout; just a chance—to enjoy some of the prosperity that most Americans take for granted. On the other hand, I recognize that the availability of cheap immigrant labor lowers wages for some of America’s poorest citizens. The assertion that immigrants only take the jobs Americans are too proud to do is both xenophobic and false. Immigrants take the jobs that Americans won’t do for low wages. If immigration stopped, the grapes would still get picked. Agribusiness owners would just have to pay more...
...this day, Iranian officials assert that their uranium-enrichment activities are purely for energy or research purposes rather than military ones. "There's no place for nuclear weapons in our national security doctrine," Larijani told TIME. He points out that Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa forbidding the use of nuclear weapons. But such claims were undermined again in January when the IAEA reported an administrative link between a uranium-conversion program known as Green Salt and efforts to weaponize missiles that, for the first time, appeared to show an attempt to harness the nuclear program...
...Veronica’s (and our) sheer pleasure, has found time to record not one but two full albums of his touching love songs while in office. Ultimately, Berlusconi’s miraculous powers are undeniable—especially with the peninsular judicial system. As he loves to assert, he has never been convicted of a crime. But a closer look suggests something rotten in the Italian Civil Code. With perfect timing, the Italian Parliament altered the statute of limitations and narrowed the scope of EU convictions to “protect Italian sovereignty.” Surprisingly, those changes...