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Does Israel really want outright annexation of the West Bank? Probably not, although the heavy Jewish migration into a region that was almost totally Arab has made Israel's intentions uncertain. Today the West Bank has 72 Jewish settlements, with a population of 24,000. Fourteen more communities are under construction. These outposts are inhabited mainly by middleclass, well-educated Israelis, who believe that the Bible gives them a timeless right to the land and who insist they will not move, come what...
...current in the national psyche far deeper and more powerful than our tropism toward corn on the cob and Japanese cars. Ice cream is our drug of choice, and butterfat-the word itself is dizzyingly lovely and globulous-is the occasion of our guiltiest and most delicious sin. Fourteen percent butterfat. Eighteen percent. Four hundred percent butterfat, some dreamer with glazed-over eyes says and actually seems to believe. The great underground truth of our society-a republic in which three-fourths of the males and every female over the age of nine are chained to the Scarsdale Diet...
...used to tell ourselves: "When we die we'll go to heaven because we have spent our time in hell." Fourteen years later, I as well as other Viet Nam veterans return to that hell almost every night...
...Even the fourteen-year-olds looked at least twenty with their long skirts and their neat, small waists strapped in leather belts. There were curtsies all along the passage as Mother Radcliffe passed. Most were no more than quick, springy bobs, but some were deep and slow and wonderful to watch." These are among the first observations of Fernanda Grey, who at nine embarks on the frightening experience of going to boarding school at Lippington in the last decade before World War I. And an exotic place it is, tending to the daughters of "old, great Catholic families, the frontierless...
...into service to relieve overcrowding in cells. Just as that uprising began to subside, 200 convicts in the maximum-security prison at Marquette, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, started another sympathy riot. They set their vocational school on fire, as well as a garment factory and store. Fourteen inmates and eight guards were injured before gun squads could restore order. Total damage in all three prisons was estimated at roughly $10 million...