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...most backbreaking about this April Nor'easter is that it comes at a time when most teams have just returned from their spring break trips, primarily from sunny locales around the globe. After an 11-game stint in Florida, for instance, the Harvard baseball team was met with a harsh New England reality as it stepped off the plane...
...obscure plot with a Hebrew name and an Arabic one. But as big yellow bulldozers began to claim the hill for Jewish houses, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was converting the landscape into a perilous flash point. Palestinians hurled stones, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, Arab leaders issued harsh denunciations, and every single friend of Israel's disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide whether those few square yards were a necessary, legitimate addition to Israel's housing stock or a flaming brand tossed...
...rejuvenating the Irish jig, most reviewers have derided Lord, which has Flatley blasting onto the stage in puffs of smoke, as a sort of Siegfried and Roy with tap shoes. "There is only one word for it all," wrote Ismene Brown in London's Daily Telegraph: "embarrassing." But harsh comments do not deflate Flatley. "When there are 7,000 people in an audience cheerin', and there's one guy who doesn't like what I'm doin', what does it matter...
...previous position as a drama critic for The Times earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Broad-way" for his harsh analyses--an epithet to which he referred laughingly during his talk...
Although Jewish groups may be justified in their campaign to recover funds from Swiss banks, their harsh tactics are breeding a new feeling of anti-Semitism. Dredging up the past and trying to forget it are both dangerous. KRYSTIAN DOMARADZKI Chicago...