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Unfortunately for the single and bitter, Anti-Valentine’s ideals are relatively difficult to impose on a society steeped in Valentine’s spirit from childhood. Think back to your rosy youth. Valentine’s Day is a mandatory holiday in elementary school, where small hands spend the evening hours of the 13th filling out 18-24 tacky cartoon cards with individualized verses of poetry, such as: “Happy V-Day. Sam.” (It makes you want to go look for the U-boats.) To cement this genuine exchange of emotion...
Standing at religious and historic sites and feeling connected to something larger than myself made it easier for me to understand how such a small piece of land could be the source of such bitter dispute. Visiting the Holocaust museum shed new light on the desire for a Jewish homeland. Meeting with a Palestinian journalist, who had to travel illegally to Jerusalem because he is not an Israeli citizen, called attention to the civil rights violations that have occurred in the wake of the Intifada. Hearing the immense sorrow of a woman who lost her daughter in the Dolphinaria disco...
...Within two years, her traditional remedies were outselling those produced by her biggest state-owned competitor by a margin of 5 to 1. But her rival, which was backed by local officials, still received every advantage, including governmental assistance to raise capital via a stock-market listing. "It was bitter medicine," Qingrong recalls...
With the filing of a federal lawsuit Thursday, Harvard landed the latest blow in an increasingly bitter power struggle between the University and the manager of two of its largest investment funds...
Wilkins, fired up from her bitter defeat the previous day, said that the solid, clean victory improved the team’s outlook going into the Howe...