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...British armored vehicle after the U.N. has announced its decision to set up a Jewish state; a fiercely beautiful Israeli woman soldier throwing a grenade; poor Moroccan migrants as they glimpse Israel from a ship's deck; a gaunt refugee bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped of the trappings of high office. He catches Meir worrying about a pot on the stove; Menachem Begin on an airplane, bending over to help his wife...
...Hebrew poet writing that to be normal, a Jewish state needed "thieves and whores" like everywhere else. "Well, we have our thieves and whores," says Rubinger, "but our politicians have made us fearful. They brought back the ghetto mentality, the idea that everybody's trying to kill us. Ben-Gurion and the other founders wanted to get away from that. They wanted Israelis to be normal." The beauty of Rubinger's photos is that by revealing Israel's extraordinary days, its glory and despair, its arrogance and insecurity, he has unveiled the Jewish nation's deepest yearning: to be accepted...
...only 20 percent of our players were Asian.” “It was about portraying the part,” Irving adds. “It wasn’t really a race issue.” The original book, by Ben Mezrich ’91, was recently exposed by The Boston Globe as more creative than its non-fiction label would suggest—according to the article, large portions of the novel are embellished or completely false. But again, neither Irvine nor Kaplan put much stock in the media crtiques. “[Mezrich...
...CASEY AFFLECK, Academy award-nominated actor (and brother of fellow fan Ben...
...then snuck home while senior Taylor Meehan was caught in an inning-ending pickle. In the eighth, the Crimson extended its lead to 4-2 when Kramer ripped a double that drove in freshman Dillon O’Neill.Before BC scored three runs off him in the ninth, freshman Ben Sestanovich recorded nine straight outs in relief. Freshman Anthony Nutter pitched 5.1 innings as the starter and surrendered just two earned runs.“Our pitchers are throwing the best in the Ivy League I think,” Kramer said. “Our hitters are getting timely...