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Rupert A. M. Davis has worked in the Square for over 30 years and manages Schoenhof’s Foreign Books. Founded in 1856, it is one of the oldest stores in the Square. For him, the Square’s changes have meant more than just a loss of familiarity...
...the NFL's New England Patriots, the loss of defensive end Marquise Hill in a Jet Skiing accident over Memorial Day weekend was, in the words of coach Bill Belichick, "stunning and tragic." Hill's loss will be felt just as acutely in his hometown of New Orleans, where the Super Bowl winner and former LSU star spent much of his time and money rebuilding homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was spending the holiday weekend refurbishing his mother's house. Hill and a friend, who survived, took the Jet Skis out on Lake Pontchartrain without life jackets...
...Palestinians, the impact of 1967 was different and profound. It took the war to define a Palestinian identity. A people torn away from the Jordanians and Egyptians, under whose suzerainty they had been living, the Palestinians forged nationalism out of anger and searing loss. And gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book...
...both smart, they value education, and they laugh at the same jokes. But in conversation with Omar, I realize that Jews and Arabs are fatally alike in another way: they both suffer from a powerful and justifiable sense of victimization--the Jews over the Holocaust, the Palestinians over the loss of their land--and this blinds them to the others' tragedy...
Estimated loss from software piracy suffered by the tech industry worldwide...