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...longer use your name, not even to the guards. Your number is 1806.'' I was taken out through another gate and into a two-story building where women prisoners were housed. The guard took me to a cell, then pushed the bolt back with a loud clang. I looked around the room, and my heart sank. Cobwebs dangled from the ceiling; the once whitewashed walls were yellow with age and streaked with dust. The single naked bulb was coated with grime and extremely dim. Patches of the cement floor were black with dampness. A strong musty smell pervaded...
...region. ''Security'' in the Israeli lexicon is an emotionally charged absolute. Soon after Golda Meir took office in 1969, the Israeli psychology began to shift away from the old predisposition to negotiate. A British governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ronald Storrs, once referred to the ''mystic, the almost frightening, metallic clang of Zionism.'' With the election of Menachem Begin in 1977, the strain of biblical nationalism, the manifest destiny of Abraham's covenant, came parading through the Israeli mind. It was a triumphal Messianism that now justified the occupation, making it not only permissible but also inevitable. The West Bank became...
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While the chalked sign next to the door advertises an evening “session”—a sort of informal, unrehearsed group performance of traditional Irish folk music—the sounds inside are wholly modern: non-threatening contemporary pop music, the clang of dishes and silverware, and the white noise of dinner chatter in a large restaurant...
...Still struggling in the polls, Bush has a full week and a Thanksgiving holiday to lower the political temperature before politicians return to the capital. After last week's tumult and partisan drama on Capitol Hill, Bush might be thankful that the lawmakers' November recess has arrived like the clang of the bell mercifully terminating a middle round in a heavyweight slugfest. Instead of irate, uppercutting critics, awaiting him in Washington are a stack of budget bills primped for his pen and a National Turkey urgently seeking presidential pardon. He leaves Tuesday to celebrate the holiday at his home...