Word: nationals
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Since Bush occasionally gives Mitchell a ride back to Maine aboard Air Force Two, he has already had a chance to take the measure of the Democratic leader. Mitchell is publicly hopeful that the new Republican Administration and the Democratic Congress can work together because "the nation's problems are serious, the challenges are great," foremost among them the budget and trade deficits. But he warns that "if the President chooses confrontation, we will confront him." Mitchell's strategy for the Democrats is to await Bush's lead on the budget, allowing him to take the heat...
...issued a medical history that included the candidate's total cholesterol and HDL levels (both well within the safe zone). Two books, Robert E. Kowalski's The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure and Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's Controlling Cholesterol, have been major sellers this year. The shelves of the nation's grocery stores are lined with products conspicuously labeled "cholesterol free." Oat bran, which moderately lowers cholesterol levels, is selling so briskly that some manufacturers are working around the clock to meet demand. Essentially, all these nostrums are aimed at reducing total cholesterol. But the hope is implicit that they...
...trial for his role in the Iran-contra fiasco, nonlawyers had reason to wonder about the motives of some of the players. On the one hand, the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who oozed patriotism from misty eyes during the congressional hearings, threatened to reveal some of the nation's most sensitive secrets if the trial proceeds. President Reagan, who has declared North innocent, said last week that he will not pardon his ex-NSC aide in advance of a trial but neither will he allow many of the classified documents to be aired in court. If that means some charges...
...writes that "Israel was never supposed to be just another nation," but rather a "light unto nations." The United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism illustrates the dangers of this false premise, by treating Jewish nationalism as inherently unequal to other national movements worldwide. Had Israel's founders believed that the new state's legitimacy rested on its higher "Jewish morals," or on some concept of perfection, they would have sealed their own destruction by implying that an imperfect Israel has no right to exist. Fortunately, they acted somewhat more carefully than Sharfstein. Israel's "Declaration of Independence" explicitly states...
...aggression, Israel has not only remained free and democratic, but also fully modernized, industrial, learned, cultured and proud, should not cause observers such as Sharfstein to hold Israel to "A Higher Standard." In proving that external threats do not justify internal repression, Israel has indeed been a "light unto nations." Yet it must never be judged as such. Criticism of Israel is a healthy sign of democracy; few people criticize Israel more than the Israelis. Yet such criticism should not be waged indiscriminately, as Sharfstein suggest. Jews and non-Jews must judge Israel according to the same standard applied...