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...Montreal at Boston...
...adoption of English by most North American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal, realized that more was at stake than the survival of the language as a spoken tongue. A native English speaker who was raised in New Bedford, Mass., and did not learn Yiddish until he studied Jewish history in college, Lansky clung to the language with a convert's passion...
...possible to explain my experience to anyone who isn't a woman, or even to a woman who hasn't experienced it blatantly. Maybe it is possible. I can try: I can tell you about obscene phone calls I've gotten, about how personally I took the Montreal Massacre... I could tell you that writing this makes me afraid I am inviting more abuse. Those women in Montreal were shot because they were feminists, or called that. I'm a feminist. What's going to happen...
Because of its prestige, the U.S. has the potential to do enormous good in promoting international treaties to heal the planet. Agreements like the 1987 Montreal Protocol, governing the release of ozone-damaging gases, serve the important function of reassuring nations that protecting the environment will not put them at a competitive disadvantage. So far, though, the Bush Administration has squandered the momentum generated by the Montreal agreement. Administration negotiators outraged nations in Africa, a prime dumping ground for hazardous wastes, by opposing important safety provisions in an international agreement on the shipment of toxic refuse...
...serious the problem is and because taking strong steps against it could cause severe economic dislocations. The U.N. is sponsoring a major study that could provide the basis for a coordinated international approach to global warming. American leadership is critical to this effort, just as it was to the Montreal Protocol...