Word: homelands
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...earned mass admiration, and a king's fortune. When he became music director of America's National Symphony Orchestra three years later, TIME put him on its cover, branding him, with cold-war gusto, "Washington's greatest new monument." But he always maintained a refugee's yearning for his homeland, and this only intensified the pathos of his playing. His Paris apartment was a veritable Hermitage of Russian artifacts, and even after he was stripped of his citizenship, he proudly described himself as Russian, an allegiance he affirmed by flying to Moscow earlier this year when he learned that...
...building the high-risk labs that house those experiments. But nobody knows exactly how many such labs exist today. A 2005 survey by the National Institute of Health, which funds much of the country's bio-defense studies, tallied 277 Level 3 labs in the U.S.; meanwhile, a Homeland Security and Health and Human Services report the same year found more than 600. The GAO's Rhodes told Congress, however, the number is "surely in the thousands." Level 4 labs, which handle the most dangerous pathogens - those for which there are no known therapeutics or vaccines, such as smallpox, Ebola...
...Sawhney firmly declares that they are not indulging in “mere political propaganda.” The subject of most of these films cannot be taken lightly: heavy sighs came from the audience at the Harvard Film Archive as children from refugee camps spoke of their homeland over nostalgic music.‘OCCUPATION 101’In a festival like this, politics cannot be easily left at the door—this fact is particularly true for the branch of the festival that takes place at Harvard. Student groups involved in the organization of the festival such...
...responding flippantly, the whole model unravels. Anonymity in expression fails to coincide with anonymity in action—as in the case of Senator Craig. If the other occupant of the bathroom had been taking things seriously, Craig might well be known for nothing more than his approval of Homeland Security appropriations...
...Middle East but Alaska, Chabon’s novel tells the hardboiled tale of Meyer Landsman as he attempts to solve a strange and seemingly inconsequential murder while dealing with the burdens of his depression and alcoholism, his disintegrated marriage, and the coming reversion of his Jewish homeland to the American government. In both form and content, Chabon’s novel is a true expression of pluralism, firmly grounded in both its particularity and its universality, fully Jewish and fully American. It’s a powerful challenge to the politics of Israel and the United States. It?...