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...They listen to the news almost obsessively. Israelis have traveled a distance from the Leon Uris version of themselves, from the romanticized pioneer days when kibbutzniks drained malarial swamps by day and danced the hora by firelight. After Ben-Gurion came to Palestine in 1906, he wrote a letter of anticipatory nostalgia to his father in Plonsk, Russian Poland. The son was laboring hard. ''But who is to complain, to sigh, to despair? In 25 years our country will be one of the most blooming, most beautiful and happiest: an old-new nation will flourish in an ancient-new land...
...Human Life” asserted that the results of the scientists’ research emphasized the possibility of “creating cell lines for the study and treatment of disease without the many ethical dilemmas associated with the creation and destruction of embryos.” In a letter addressed to two Congressmen, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Kevin C. Eggan, Medical School Assistant Professor Chad A. Cowan, and Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton wrote that they were “surprised” to see their work “used...
...inviting the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux hockey team to a tournament being held at Dartmouth.The University of North Dakota’s continuing use of a Native American mascot “is offensive and wrong,” she wrote in a letter to the editor published in The Dartmouth, the student-run daily.A week later, The Dartmouth Review published an issue entitled “The Natives are Getting Restless” and its cover depicted a Native American holding a scalp.An editorial in the same issue called Harper’s letter...
...personal costs of the McMartin case, however, have already been high. Raymond Buckey, who has been in jail for 33 months without bail, said on 60 Minutes last month that the sexual-abuse scandal had already ruined his life and that of his family. "They've burned a scarlet letter on me that I can never get rid of," he said. The McMartin parents must endure the dark question of whether their children have been grievously misused by abusive teachers or overeager prosecutors. "Who's going to survive McMartin?" Stevens glumly inquires. "Who's going to come out unscathed? Nobody...
...been involved. Others question whether he improperly used confidential information gained while working in the D.A.'s office. For its part, the prosecution claims that Stevens, motivated by money, has lied about his role in the case. They say he himself was responsible for the handling of the letter in question, and that no one else in the office knew about it until after he left his job, when it was found in his files. Stevens counters that the letter should have been turned over before he joined the prosecution team in April...