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Still, Hosseim's younger brother wants to follow him to Italy. "He says: 'I can't stay here; there's nothing for me here.' I tell him not to come, but he thinks I'm not telling the truth about my life here," says Hosseim as he sits in a small apartment he shares with four other Moroccans. "All young people think there's money and cars waiting for you. But when you come, you see it's different...
Where will Israel go? Well, he could follow the path of fellow white-collar criminal Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, who has been openly living in Namibia for two years while the United States wages a slow battle to have him extradited...
...wife, "no patient's strangulated hernia has failed to repair itself on the road to the hospital." Still, they had to finish the journey lest the ambulance's trip be considered in vain. My wife and her mother returned home late in the afternoon by taxi - a kind of follow-up treatment...
Obama is trying to follow a different path, blazed by Robert F. Kennedy, who in 1967--just as he was coming out against the Vietnam War--co-sponsored legislation raising penalties for protesters who desecrate the flag. For his part, John McCain is a walking American flag, his heroic biography at the root of his entire campaign. What both campaigns understand is that American patriotism wears two faces: a patriotism of affirmation, which appeals more to conservatives, and a patriotism of dissent, particularly cherished by liberals. Both brands are precious, and both are dangerous. And in this campaign, the candidate...
...something they didn't like, it would become an emblem not of national unity but of political division. On the other hand, waving a flag, like holding a Bible, is supposed to be a spur to action. When it becomes an end in itself, America needs people willing to follow in the footsteps of the prophets and remind us that complacent ritual can be the enemy of true devotion...