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...worst thing American Jews can do is blindly accept all Israel's positions pro forma, as rabbis all around the country probably did last weekend. That can only harden Israeli intransigence. American Jews have to abandon their traditional practice of rallying to the government line just because it has few other friends. Israel is a strong, tough state, in no need of coddling. Only by being honest with their feelings and speaking out can American Jews do their most for the Jewish state. Even if that honesty and speaking out means a little bit of friendly criticism...
...Haig in both London and Paris, Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Francis Pym, rejected such a compromise as "totally unacceptable." Argentina's continued military resistance, they said, ruled out any involvement in the Falklands' administration in the foreseeable future. The British warned that their position would further harden if President Galtieri carried out his threat to continue the battle from the Argentine mainland after a British military victory...
...diversity of international society. It has to be responsible to the needs and aspirations of the poor and suppressed who yearn for the same freedoms that we enjoy and strive to protect. If we reduce complexity and diversity to the simple question of Soviet-American competition, international relations will harden and the dangers of confrontation will increase. Considerable pessimism can be felt before the economic summit. Mounting economic problems and increasing unemployment are real threats to the atmosphere and to cooperation...
...supply of local wood. He split the felled tree with a wedge, then used a heavy blade called a froe to cut them into the proper lengths for furniture. Pieces of white hickory sat in pails of water on the floor; Carter explained that the wood will not harden if it is kept moist. Long curls of hickory bark, which Carter uses for the seats of chairs, hung on string nailed to the ceiling...
...shame that Emerson had to harden into a monument, into mere required reading, or worse, the man superseded by Kurt Vonnegut on the course lists. Too many generations came to regard him as a chill, gnomic bore, the best of American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should...