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...staggered the country's economy. The involuntary war "loan" deducted from Israeli salaries has been raised to 14% of income - on top of steep ordinary income tax rates - even as government subsidies of food staples have been slashed. As a result, the cost of such items as bread, butter and milk has risen anywhere from 30% to 70%, while the average bus fare has gone up 50% and the price of a telephone call...
Harvard's responsibilities towards graduate students are a lot less defined, especially in regard to bread-and-butter issues. Events in past years have made the University increasingly aware that when it admits a graduate student, it admits someone who is financially independent of his or her parents. At issue behind day care at Harvard is the fact that when Harvard admits a graduate student, it very often is "admitting" a family...
Instead, Solzhenitsyn was drafted into the Red Army in 1941. After that, he confesses, he acquired the habits of the Soviet elite: "I ate my officer's butter with pastry, without giving a thought to why I had a right to it, while rank and file soldiers did not... This is what happens when you put epaulets on people's shoulders; they begin to feel like little gods." Rising to the rank of artillery captain, Solzhenitsyn was decorated several times for bravery while serving on three fighting fronts. Then, in the midst of a battle in 1945, he was arrested...
...life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily spread with a kind of butter called gleena, made from slow-boiled candlefish, and is convinced that the elders mysteriously know whenever a stranger is coming. The Book of Common Prayer and Indian rituals reinforce each other as Mark helps the Kwakiutls transfer their tribal dead from a dilapidated tree-house burial site to newly hallowed ground...
...became an activist, highly visible vice mayor in 1970, pushing for tough, bread-and-butter reforms, particularly in the areas of housing and construction. He promoted black employment in construction, backed a community rent strike and conducted grievance hearings at a public housing project...