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...movie is set in Montreal from the late 1940s onward into the first pale years of the '50s. Buddy's father (Jack Warden) is a taxi driver. His brother is a pre-med student practically numb with the wish to be a WASP, to let the Jewishness drain out of him and get a life-supporting transfusion of blue blood. Buddy, just out of high school, works in a summer resort, tries running a roulette game on the sly, is hoodwinked into smuggling heroin for a fat-fingered hood, concocts on his own all sorts of wild-eyed...
...winter, however, they are cut off, often for weeks, from the nearest medical aid and supplies. Groceries must be brought from a supermarket 110 miles away in Kingman, Ariz, and sell in the village co-op store for as much as 40% over the regular retail price-an enormous drain on the average Havasupai income of $700 a year...
...pretty easy to reconstruct what happened. After being wined and dined by the Israeli intellectual and academic elite (who were well aware of how important a good word from Sontag would do in stopping the drain of support for Israel on the American left), she seems to have classified Israelis into two groups, the hawks (here represented by Harkavi) and the doves (much more favorably represented by Kenan), a division which may make sense in an American context, but not in an Israeli one. By including both in her film, she could honestly say that, despite her disagreements with...
...made the first radical change in the principle of open seas. President Harry S. Truman, worried by World War II's drain on domestic petroleum reserves, declared in 1945 that the nation owned the resources on and under its continental shelf, which extends as much as 700 miles out to sea (off Alaska). He did not claim either the fish in the water or any rights over ship transit. But a few other nations, starting with Chile in 1947, drew no such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while...
Water backed up in drain pipes caused two inches of flooding in Widener Library's basement Thursday night, but Frank Lamentea, assistant business manager of Harvard College Library, said only minimal damage was done, costing approximately $500 to repair...