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During the party-leadership campaign, Netanyahu brought a U.S.-style media scandal upon himself. Hoping to head off damaging rumors, he appeared on the main TV-news program to confess that he had cheated on his wife Sara. He charged that a political rival, by which he plainly meant former Foreign Minister David Levy, was trying to blackmail him with an incriminating videotape. Police found no evidence to support the charge, and Netanyahu was compelled to apologize to Levy...
...matter which side won, this election would have been a tragedy, alienating half the nation from its government. Israel is divided against itself not just ideologically but existentially: both left and right now see each other as the main threat to the country's long-term survival...
Turner's dream of making state universities the main avenue of opportunity in America was hardly unique to him. Hints of the concept can be found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin (founders of the universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania), and of Abraham Lincoln, who signed into law one of this country's first landmark pieces of national social legislation, the Morrill Act of 1862, which provided "land grants" for the establishment of colleges of agriculture and engineering...
...fears that the Federal Reserve would boost interest rates to ward off inflation. (The market rebounded later in the day, closing up nearly 30 points.) Labor Secretary Robert Reich, whose department released the new figures, criticized Wall Street's dim view: "This isn't the first time that Main Street has celebrated, and Wall Street has despaired. I don't see any signs of accelerating inflation." The Labor report shows that jobs swelled by 348,000 last month, twice the number expected. It was not the first positive employment report to cause sharp drops in the stock market, notes TIME...
...most criticized aspect of the renovation plan was the division of the Great Hall, formerly the main dining hall of the Union, into three sections. This plan required the removal of the ceiling of the hall...