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...populations of areas into which the Israeli army entered; in part, the Arabs, unlike the Jews, had somewhere to go if they wanted to avoid the terrors of war and the very possibility of escape became a source of their weakness. After all, those who have nowhere to flee cling most tenaciously to their existing ground. This was the Jewish strength...
What Judge Raymond Pettine's ruling points to is Brown's failure to establish proportionate numbers of varsity athletic positions for men and women as a violation of the federal law known as Title IX. Mandating gender proportionality, supporters say, successfully enfeebles forces that cling to the view that female athletics are less important, getting to the heart of what equal treatment is all about. As Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation, asserted, "This win is one more step in the right direction for women's sports...
...think the Harvard community has a goal ofdiversification, and a lot of times when smallminority groups like African-Americans and Latinopeople are together, it appears that we're tryingto cling together, but no one realizes that thewhite people who go here also try to sit at tablestogether," says Adrienne R. W. Bradley '96, NorthHouse Committee vice chair...
Does Clinton possess the same stamina and gumption that other great presidents did? Can he see himself and his people through the present quandary, or will his infirmity cost him the presidency? Worse still, will he have to acquiesce to the Right in order to cling to power? The answers will be in the offing...
...fools you. His new album's title track perks and chirps along like a burger jingle. Not until you peel off the tinsel and listen to the lyrics--"You had a scent for scandal/ Well here's my middle finger/ I had 40 years of pain/ and nothing to cling to"--do you hear John raging at his homeland and his fickle fans. "It's sort of a 'screw you' song," says Taupin. "I put myself in his shoes and heard him saying, 'This is me, accept me for what...