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...historian” Benny Morris—a strong Zionist—has documented the “Origins of the Palestine Refugee Problem.” During military operations in 1947 and 1948 against Palestinian resisters and Arab invading armies trying ineffectually to prevent the creation of a Jewish state, Jewish regular and irregular forces, sometimes using carefully calibrated terror tactics, drove somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 Palestinian men, women and children from their villages, which they then leveled. After the war, they used force to prevent any of them from returning. Then the new state summarily...
...state budget proposed by Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 calls for raising the cap on charter school spending to 12 percent from nine percent—a move that could allow for the creation of a fourth charter school in Cambridge. The proposal was met with criticism from interest groups and educators on both sides of the charter school debate. Although the governor’s proposal would allow more students who want to attend charter schools to do so, the additional funding comes with the stipulation that 80 percent of the new schools?...
...Because the recession has already moved to most parts of Europe and much of Asia, the demand for US exports has dropped sharply. That also undermines business output and job creation. Businesses which count on overseas consumption get the air taken out of their sales...
...nature. We’re more interested in other people,” Peterson, the moderator, said. “The trick is to draw people away from the human experience to another foreign experience.” Montgomery stressed the connection between people and the rest of creation in her writing. “My goal is to make people care about the green sweet world,” she said. Harvard Museum of Natural History Executive Director Elisabeth A. Werby ’72 used the words of conservationist Wendell Berry—“the only...
...learned this week, the stimulus package included a wide variety of programs, not all of them geared toward job creation or immediate economic benefits. But supporters of the Medicaid provision argue that it would have resulted in lower health-care costs and therefore rightfully belonged in the stimulus package as a cost-cutting measure. Whether or not you agree with that argument, numerous studies have shown that investments in preventative care save money in the long run. The Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for abortion rights, estimates that every dollar of publicly funded family-planning services saves $4 in state...