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...them has been returned. In addition, human rights organizations have found that nine more of the deportees had been scheduled for release from Israeli prisons or had had their sentences shortened, and were deported on the eve of their release as a sort of extension of their sentences. The latter cases show an inhumane and frustrating policy, seemingly borrowed from Stalin's reign of terror, of asserting power by releasing prisoners only to jail them again or, in this case, deporting them. And the former cases are terrifyingly arbitrary, and reveal a bungling of justice that has been...

Author: By Haneen M. Rabie, | Title: Two Views: The Deportation of Palestinian Arabs | 1/21/1993 | See Source »

...working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

According to accounts in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, the changing of the guard was anything but friendly. The papers reported this week that Harris helped recruit Kurtzman, expecting the latter to come on as his number two. But the Review decided to replace Harris behind his back, and the former editor is now out on the streets...

Author: By Amy E. Yeager, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Times Editor to Take Helm at Review | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...shoddy and unsafe condition of some of its branches, and the other is the standardization of the product. "Managed competition" may solve the former problem, but the latter is more of a long-term threat and results from the fact that the system is run by, and primarily responsible to, centralized government bureaucracies rather than communities of consumers...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Public and Private Schools of Thought | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

ULTIMATELY, IT MAY COME DOWN TO A MATTER OF passion vs. Passion. Twenty Republican centrist leaders who think they can muster enough of the former to check the growing power of the latter have announced the creation of the Republican Majority Coalition. The group's main goal is to excise controversial moral questions, like abortion, gay rights and school prayer from politics generally and from the next G.O.P. platform in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Exorcism | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

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