Word: existing
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...understand" Israel, one must first realize "the importance of the Holocaust." How true, both in understanding Israel and in calculating the attitudes of the European nations toward Israel. The Holocaust plays a part in Israeli siege mentality, an attitude without which the disparate Jewish state could not exist. Similar "learning" from the Holocaust becomes evident when one examines Israel's murderous tactics in Lebanon and the occupied territories. What the Arabs lack in regard to the Holocaust is not understanding, but rather guilt. The Arabs are not Germany, which perpetrated those terrible events. Nor are they France or Italy which...
...impulses long enough to ask some serious questions: Is the issue they are presented inherently newsworthy? What is the credibility and good faith of the source? Do his or her charges deserve a front-page lead story, or will a blurb on the inside suffice? Does a controversy actually exist, or are they being manipulated into precipitating...
Official attendance records only exist for the past 25 years of Harvard football. And during those 25 years, last weekend's crowd was, by far, the smallest single gathering to watch the Crimson gridders...
...have the same artistic complexity as Lolita. Despite its shortcomings, there is much to admire in this piece of prose. Nabokov's unmistakable flair comes across clearly in Dmitri Nabokov's sensitive and painstaking translation. When he spoke at Harvard last Thursday, Dmitri mentioned an "inviolable contract" which existed between the father as author and the son as translator, and which continued to exist even after the father's death...
...cannot influence human actions, but still controls the weather. After the last game, I realized that He must hate the DH rule so much that He only favors the Sox within the American League. (I must, of course, now also entertain the possibility that either he doesn't exist at all or doesn't give a damn about baseball.) We are left alone with our pain...