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...memories of a variety of “exotic” vacations, including journeys to Morocco, the Middle East, and the country that gives the café its namesake. But one aspect of the coffee house is uniquely Algerian: its prices are as absurd as the fiction of the land??s most famous novelist, Albert Camus. It’s highly unlikely that a $3.50 croissant even exists in France, let alone in a former colony, and paying $9.95 for a ham sandwich is as ridiculous as shooting a stranger on the beach for no reason...
...call for devotion to safeguarding some German “fatherland” or Soviet “motherland.”The term seems to achieve such an effect from a combination of two characteristics: first, by indicating that the well-being of the domineering “land?? takes precedence over that of its people, and second, by the choice of Germanic word-collision over more harmonious Latinate diction such as “domestic.” And the effect does not seem to have diminished in the six years since Noonan?...
...Some people generally think Harvard is another land??that it is untouchable, and you have to be from a certain economic background—but that’s not the case,” said Nicole Guilmette-Biagioni, a Bunker Hill professor on the committee. “They dispelled a lot of the myths that people have about Harvard...
John Peterson is a man who doesn’t just farm the land??he eats it. In the opening scenes of his upcoming movie, “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” Peterson ruminates over a patch of farmland like a wine connoisseur sampling a rare vintage...
Finally, Hadil, only 15, told the story of the Palestinian “exile” from Israel in 1948. She claimed that the Palestinians were simply sitting in their homes peacefully when the “Zionists came into the land?? and “killed and destroyed” until the people “got scared and fled.” Her comments suggest that there was suddenly a mass forced exile and murder of Muslim civilians by the new state of Israel, but this claim is historically false...