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After Kahane was shot to death in 1990 by an Arab assassin in New York City, Goldstein's anger appeared to deepen. In remarks at the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, he vowed that someday a Jew would rise up and kill many Arabs in revenge for Kahane's death. Last fall Goldstein quit the Kiryat Arba council. Some neighbors say it was because the council had rejected his demand to bar new immigrants to Israel, many of them from Russia, from moving to Kiryat Arba. He felt they were not sufficiently devout...
...Burnes claim 85% of all homeless people suffer from alcoholism, drug abuse or mental illness. The authors' stated aim is to force society "to stop making distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving poor" and address the underlying problems head on. More often, their book has served to deepen the homeless stigma...
...fate of Shougang and other state-owned behemoths was much on the mind of China's rulers last week, as they launched a de facto turnaround in Vice Premier Zhu's austerity measures, coupled with a bid to broaden and deepen medium-term economic reforms. A communique issued by the party's central committee indicated that the government was loosening the restraints on credit and growth that it imposed only last July. But the statement also made a significant nod to the importance of the market as "a fundamental factor in the disposition of resources." And it went...
Only Harvard's WHRB over the years has consistently shown strong, imaginative classical music programming. The Bach "orgy" in the early 80s will go down in broadcasting history. Its many orgies before and after have provided unparalleled opportunities for listeners to deepen their appreciation of the composer selected for celebration. Its daily blocks of classical music have filled much of the void in Boston's desolate airwaves...
Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...