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...Palestinians, we do not want to prolong a war that kills children and women and soldiers. We do not ever want to see apartheid in Israel. But we also will not put our country at risk and we will not be bullied by terrorism; we will not turn a blind eye when our families are slaughtered and immolated at their weddings, Passover meals, shopping malls, and on their buses. Israel’s soldiers are in the territories only because they are, in the face of Palestinian police collaboration with terrorism, the only thing that stands between terrorists and their...
...heart, Bill and Leora’s stories deal with the function of art and its failure to provide meaning. The snapshot depictions of holy life that they expect will lead to epiphany ironically blind both from seeing how their own lives fit together. One of Horn’s most clever techniques is to give readers the information they need to put the narrative puzzle together in a way the characters never can. The narration, though it suggests that art can never represent life in its totality, actually becomes a vehicle for total meaning—though this...
...This weekend’s production of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson answers this question. Based on the life of Helen Keller, Class of 1904, and her teacher Annie Sullivan, Sorensen hopes that the play will be well recieved and “will raise consciousness about the blind.” After searching for years for a way to help their daughter who, due to illness, became blind and deaf as an infant, Helen’s parents hire a young governess, Annie. Several fierce battles follow: between Annie and the spoiled Helen and between Annie...
...eight-man boat had been filled with employees of the Gentle Giant Moving Co. According to John O’Toole, president of the company, Yasaitis had been passing two other scullers around a blind turn at a very narrow point in the Charles River...
...States too has failed Colombia. During the Clinton administration, aid to Colombia was limited to anti-drug efforts. Military equipment used to destroy some poor farmer’s only cash crop could not be deployed against the rebels. The United States let its obsession with the drug war blind it to the real problem—millions of acres of fertile coca-growing land under the authority of left-wing thugs...