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...legitimate target where individual Jews are not. There is a quip ascribed to the Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex: "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," meaning that Germans (and all of Europe that let it happen) do not want to live under the burden of the Holocaust forever. Hence the projection of a guilt - as most recently executed by Martin Hohmann - that evens the score and lightens the burden of moral responsibility. If this is the bad news, what is the good news? It is obvious: the demise of "classical" anti-Semitism in Europe - of persecution, expulsion...
...burden, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that Ankara was "re-evaluating" its offer of troops in light of vehement opposition to the idea from Iraqis and from Baghdad's interim governing council. Privately, Turkish officials said preparations for the deployment of 10,000 soldiers - requested by Washington and approved by the Turkish parliament last month - had been halted. - By Andrew Purvis Not There Yet E.U. In a series of monitoring reports, the European Commission cautioned the 10 countries hoping to join the E.U. next May that they could face sanctions if they fail...
Just how does one convince profit-hungry corporations to reorganize their infrastructure all for the good of workers? Greider suggested that the burden to convince companies to change is shared in the community. That is, the corporation’s investors and the members of the community at large have a social responsibility to use their own stake and influence in the corporation to force change...
Following Cabot was Lowell, which meant the first long stretch of running after eating. Along the way, Lim, “cramped,” and released his burden, literally, in a nearby garbage receptacle. At Lowell, death became more imminent. “Dean Kirby is right,” Lassiter said. “This will kill us.” Bryson, however, continued to maintain perspective. “I’m just going to keep on chewing—one bite at a time,” he said. “Chewing Trident after...
...offer to send upward of 10,000 men until the U.S. can twist the arm of the Iraqi Governing Council to reverse its opposition to such a deployment has left Washington forced to contemplate calling up more reserves. Getting Iraqis to take on more of the security burden is obviously preferable. But accelerating the training and deployment of Iraqi forces also raises a number of dangers. It assumes that Iraqis will somehow be more capable than the far better-trained and -equipped Americans - and equally willing - to hunt down and eliminate the insurgents. But if the composition of the insurgency...