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John Kerry can expect to hear a lot more from the Vietnam veterans who have launched an ad campaign attacking his military record. Polls suggest the flap is damaging Kerry's image as a decorated veteran: 77% of registered voters surveyed by TIME say they have seen the ads or heard about them. And while Navy records and eyewitnesses contradict nearly all of the group's claims, 35% (including 25% of swing voters) suspect there's some truth to the charges...
...Israel climbed to 2,083 last year from 1,366 in 1999, according to the Jewish Agency, the Israeli body that handles immigration; it could total 3,000 by the end of this year. The Israeli government is receptive: in July, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set off a diplomatic flap when he called on French Jews to "move to Israel as early as possible," and later welcomed 200 new French immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv to "the only place where you can be safe." Most who make the move blame rising anti-Semitism. Jews have historically struggled...
...what Rakoczy eventually found was exactly that. As a reporter, she covered everything from Harvard’s presidential search to former professor Cornel R. West’s flap with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...courtyard where he met with Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in 1991 and hashed out the development of Harvard’s powerhouse Department of Afro-American Studies, Rudenstine avoids any discussion of his successor’s flap with the department...
...Flap Your Wings" NELLY...