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Many Israelis believe that the majority of Palestinians are neither politicized nor violent but want merely to be left alone to live in peace. Yet most West Bank Arab leaders would probably argue that political grievances are what bind the Palestinians together. "What the Israelis want for themselves, we want for ourselves," says Tawfik Amer, 63, a former Jordanian diplomat. "I do not deny the Israelis their state or their way of life, and they cannot deny me the same." Indeed, there is little doubt that the younger generation of Palestinians has become increasingly radicalized, particularly the university graduates...
During his freshman year, Chung answered an advertisement for cheap plane tickets with a firm in Brookline. The man on the other end of the phone, Richard Aiken, was a travel agent in a bind. Chung bought the tickets and more...
...people's claim to rule...is most persuasively put, it seems to me, not in terms of what the people know but in terms of who they are. They are the subjects of the law, and if the law is to bind them as free men and women, they must also be its makers...
...Club and the Harvard Administration. The next time they are smitten with the urge to confer freedom of speech on Pretoria's spokesmen, they should: (a) not publicize the event, (b) restrict entry only to members of the Conservative Club who can give out the correct password, (c) gag, bind and blindfold members of the audience before entry, (d) have a water cannon handy, just in case, (e) cordon off the campus to outside agitators (and Channel 7), (f) hold the event in Dean Archie Epps' office...
...same observation could be made about the achievements of Casey's friend and boss, Ronald Reagan. Like Reagan, Casey has put himself into a difficult bind about a scandal that occurred on his watch: even while denying his complicity, he is admitting to an appalling ignorance of what went on around...