Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purposes of learning is to acquire new ideas, whether or not we agree with them. The point is not to relearn things we already know, or to be told only things we want to hear. As students, we should consider and weigh the presentation of the material with an open mind without being too hasty to find offense in what is, at its worst, thoughtlessness, or, at its best, innovation...
...officer, who refused to give his name, said he would try to get a Cambridge animal shelter to take the chicken, but since one wasn't open, he said it might be impossible...
...violence continues, Israeli soldiers are growing hostile and frustrated. Beset by fatigue, rain and midwinter cold, many say they are fed up with their mission in the territories. "It's a horrible routine," complained one young conscript as he plodded through the daily ritual of forcing striking merchants to open their shops. Slamming up the shutters and using crowbars to crack flimsy padlocks, the soldiers move wearily down the main street of Ramallah every morning through a silent crowd of grinning Arabs. As soon as the unit passes, the shops are quickly shuttered again. The process goes...
...four months of basic training learning to fight enemy armies, not to police occupied lands or control riots. The troops have also labored under a series of ambiguous orders as their bewildered generals struggled to find policies that worked. Though Israeli leaders insist that the soldiers are supposed to open fire only when their lives are endangered and beat Palestinians only when confronted, inexperienced conscripts find it hard to define those conditions precisely. And while military leaders now insist that there was no blanket order to administer indiscriminate beatings, the soldiers in the field and the Palestinians in the hospitals...
...open letter published two weeks ago in Israel's Hebrew-language newspapers, some 500 psychologists and psychiatrists expressed similar concerns about the effect of the occupation on Israel as a whole. "This situation has a horrible influence on the Jewish population," they wrote. "We are busy every day in the act of oppression. We are losing our sensitivity to human suffering, and our children are being brought up on values of discrimination and racism. Our soldiers are put in an impossible situation from a moral point of view...