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...that of the city, yet he was always financially dependent on the support of industrial billionaires like Birla. His hunger strikes could stop riots and massacres, but he also once went on a hunger strike to force one of his capitalist patrons' employees to break their strike against the harsh conditions of employment...
...well into his 80s, raised his voice for the last time. Keep Jerusalem undivided, he said, but otherwise we must suppress our yearnings for the newly gained regions; we must relinquish them in return for peace. The October War of 1973 came as a nemesis, a harsh slap of reality, undoing the post-1967 Israeli arrogance and moral callousness. Ben-Gurion died a few weeks after that war, while a wounded, deflated Israel was mourning its heavy losses and entering a long period of soul searching...
Moreover, the surveys and legislative record fall short of accurately conveying the extent to which gay and lesbian persons are marginalized from mainstream American dialogue and culture. In most of this country, gay and lesbian persons cannot go on a date without reaping weird looks or even harsh words. And woe to the homosexual adolescent who risks being thrown out of the house in coming out to his parents...
Indeed, legal experts are hard pressed to cite examples of cases in which parents have suffered harsh penalties. Under a St. Clair Shores, Mich., ordinance, for example, a couple was fined $2,200 in 1996 after their son pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a church and drug-related charges. Their convictions were later overturned. Says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco: "Parental-responsibility law is a gray area. It's a toothless tiger. We have no research on the laws' effectiveness...
...effort to nudge recipients into the workforce, Massachusetts imposed a two-year limit onbenefits (within a five-year span), stricter thanfederal guidelines but not as harsh as the 12month maximum in Texas...