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Since its founding in 1948, Israel has been a garrison state, devoting its energies and capital, and aid from foreign governments and Diaspora Jews, to building and maintaining a military establishment that would crush its Arab enemies. The expense has deprived Israel of funds needed for the enjoyment of an even better life and more vibrant economy...
...This could just put a greater crush on the housing stock than we now have, if people have to become a resident of the city within a year," Gerard Bergman said...
Beneath the heat of TV klieg lights and the crush of security guards at a Tokyo hotel, the structure of Japanese politics began to crumble last week. Tsutomu Hata, three times a Cabinet minister for the Liberal Democratic Party that had ruled the country for 37 uninterrupted years, announced that he and 43 Diet colleagues had quit the L.D.P., forming a new party that would contest parliamentary elections to be held later this month. "Our party has been born to expedite a new wind, a new voice, a new system," said the smooth-talking Hata. "We pledge we will...
That is, until her parents pressed her into taking a second look at Harvard. "I visited in 1988 as a pre-frosh and I saw China Forbes ['92] and she was such an unforgettable singer. I had such a huge crush on her that I wanted to come to Harvard," Toomer says...
...certainly there are people who have always felt themselves to be gay -- or straight -- since the first unruly grade-school crush or tickle in the groin. But for every study suggesting that homosexuality is innate, there are plenty of others that suggest human sexuality is far more versatile -- or capricious, if you like. A 1989 study by researchers affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences found 20% of American men had had sex with a man at least once. Interestingly, in other studies, men who had served in the military reported somewhat more same-sex encounters than...