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...Throughout the discussions of a possible U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, I have seen hardly any consideration of how it might affect the U.S.'s major ally in the region: Israel. The past three years have made it clearer than ever that Israel is a bastion of freedom in the area, in good part because of the much appreciated support from the U.S. But it would be irresponsible for the U.S. to plan its withdrawal from Iraq without weighing the effect on a genuine friend whose very existence is contested daily. Shahar Segev Holon, Israel...
African Americans have come a long way in this country. Besides achieving the descriptive label “black” instead of that other taboo word, they now have the luxury to “behave” as either black or white—surely, no less freedom than what Martin Luther King Jr. intended in his glorious cry atop the Lincoln Memorial...right...
Soon, campaigning for the 2008 presidential election will hit full swing. But it remains to be seen whether this political circus can yield what might perhaps be the greatest demonstration of freedom in our nation’s history: the sight of a black man representing both the community he came from and the whole national melting pot. Will freedom really ring from “the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire… from the curvaceous slopes of California… from every hill and molehill of Mississippi?” Only time will tell...
...dreamy glaze, an enamel of unseeing. He and the other Palestinians, none older than 15 or so, came round and pounded on the car with fists. Their indignation was furious, but also a sort of abstraction, and mixed in it a fierce atmosphere of carnival, an electricity of freedom and breaking loose -- up out of nonentity into entity, a violent flowering of the heart, a burst of flame. A moment before, they had been hurling stones at a Volkswagen van that went veering and skittering off down the main street of Khan Yunis. So we were next in line...
...He’s always very eager to help us with any problems we’re encountering, but he also allows us [undergraduates] a great deal of freedom to learn and explore the field ourselves,” Grigg says...