Word: gladding
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...want to start this column with a shout-out to a small and oft-ignored subset of my readers. I don’t mean residents of Pfoho or my aunts down in New Jersey, though I’m glad they’re reading too. Instead, I want to acknowledge my as-of-this-writing-unborn grandchildren. I want to do this because it occurred to me recently that some day, as my distant kin are sitting in their dorm rooms in Allston looking out onto their gorgeous new student center (or, heaven forbid, envying it from somewhere...
...they shoot each day with hundreds of artillery shells. Thirteen militants were killed by Israeli artillery and air strikes in Gaza two weekends ago, but so were four civilians, one an 8-year-old girl. For now, Hamas leaders, facing dwindling post-election optimism, can be glad that popular frustration is pointed at Israel, the U.S. and Europe. More flexibility from the international community would ease their difficulties, but meanwhile Hamas must manage to fill its coffers or risk having that opprobrium turned its way. And there is scarce room for maneuver: Tel Aviv has suspended monthly payments of approximately...
...Orleans, we're not down with Michael Brown. We were glad when he left town...
...Hamas, refusing to recognize Israel's right to exist, has been scrambling to respond to the chief consequences of victory: a freeze in funding to the Palestinian government by the U.S. and many members of the European Union. For now, Hamas leaders, facing dwindling postelection optimism, can be glad that popular frustration and anger are pointed at Israel, the U.S. and Europe. Flexibility on the part of the international community would ease their difficulties, but meanwhile Hamas must find a way to stem the crisis or risk having opprobrium turned...
...that will include continued reliance on gifts, a stake in the current termbill fee, or the building of a social programming endowment needs to be made clear. In the interim, the UC will have roughly $70,000 extra to spend that previously went toward CLC social programming. We are glad that House Comittee’s and student groups are bound to benefit from this boon. But so long as the long term funding of the social programming board remains unclear, the reliability of this additional funding should also remain an open question, so as not to surreptitiously amount...