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...uprising against Israeli rule in the occupied territories that began in December 1987. Tough and unrelenting toward the protesters, Rabin is said to have told his troops to ''break their bones,'' ordering deportations and the destruction of Palestinian houses. Yet he was quicker than many to grasp the import of the uprising. As early as February 1988, Rabin was telling Labor Party activists, ''I've learned something in the past 2 1/2 months -- among other things that you can't rule by force over 1.5 million Palestinians.'' Annexing the occupied territories would dilute the Jewish character of Israel, he believed...
...Colemans to Somalia, where they saw the woeful state of the roads. But they noticed that the countryside was littered with abandoned motorbikes, left by earlier aid workers who didn't know how to fit an oil filter or tighten a chain. If Mamola and the Colemans could import drivers who could handle the roads and maintain the bikes, a whole fleet of vehicles could be put back to work. "Things all came together," says Andrea...
...never achieved the (comparative) popularity of some of their alt-country contemporaries: Wilco and Ryan Adams especially. Berman savors the absurd, and his songs abound with bizarre characterizations and nonsensical turns of phrase. Berman’s genius is his ability to invest these caricatures with pathos and existential import: the freaks and geeks that populate Berman songs are transformed into emblems of desire and resignation. The band’s new album “Tanglewood Numbers” invokes such lyrical oddities as a “young black Santa Claus...
...seek to evaluate the teaching quality of professors and teaching fellows more precisely. As it stands, the CUE Guide prints comments concerning instructors’ teaching abilities that are sometimes trivial. For example, the fact that a professor speaks too softly in lecture does not carry nearly as much import as whether or not students are actually mastering the course material. The rewritten survey should allow students to specifically identify their instructors’ pedagogical shortcomings; the oft-repeated comment that a “professor is disorganized,” for instance, is too general...
...Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam, and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Elaine Scarry placed 57th, 77th, and 92nd, respectively.Most professors seemed unfazed by the outcome, unsure of the significance and import of the list.When asked about his reaction to his new title as the world’s top public intellectual, Chomsky replied in an e-mail that he was “underwhelmed.” “I don’t think it means much...