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...Palestinians living in Israel feel thrice removed. First in privilege and status come the European Jews, then come the Oriental Jews, then, a distant third, the Israeli Arabs. Many of their grievances sound like the complaints of American blacks, and sometimes Israel gives off something of the Old South, of race hate and sheer meanness. The other evening on Salah el-Din Street in East Jerusalem, a middle-aged man in a business suit was stopped by a beefy policeman who addressed him in Arabic: "Ya, walid ((Hey, boy))!" The policeman took the Palestinian's left hand and twisted...
...imagination and empathy. After the massacre in Tiananmen Square, he said, "This is not the time for an emotional response." In this case and others, like Lithuania, there have been realpolitik reasons -- perhaps sufficient reasons -- for not cutting off the offending regime. But Bush's repeated cool response to distant suffering and struggles gives the impression that at some level he just doesn't get it. He may give his coat to a beggar on the street -- noblesse oblige -- but his sleep is not disturbed by things...
Locally, owners of service businesses in the Square said that the tax is dangerous because it would turn new companies away from the state, at a time when the "Massachusetts Miracle" is already a distant memory...
...distant future, Baltz says, he hopes tostart a massage healing TV show with his ex-wife
...visible starlight that Hubble is now able to collect and magnify is no better than that seen by landlocked observatories. It is impossible for Hubble to find a planet circling a distant star or detect a black hole at the center of a galaxy. At least 40% of the experiments planned for the telescope will have to be postponed until engineers can make lenses for the craft's instruments that will compensate for the mirror's flaw. Astronauts will then have to ride the shuttle into orbit and space walk to the telescope, where they will fit the new lenses...