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...numbers of civilians killed. These killings continue, as the families of the 200 Palestinian civilians killed since the Oslo agreement will attest. And democracy? Vast tracts of "public" land in Israel are owned by the Jewish National Fund, whose assets exist to benefit "persons of Jewish religion, race or origin." The Jewish Agency, which has a similar mandate, controls much of the development budget: through a variety of legal ruses, state benefits to large families have been tailored largely to exclude Israel's Arab citizens. Israel is not a democracy for all of its citizens (which is not even...
...only sang a meera bhajan--a Hindu devotional song--but later danced a beautiful individual solo in the ancient kathak style. And Mattar Bhattacharya '98, co-president of SAA, gave a splendid recital in traditional Hindustani style on the sarod, an intimidating 24-string instrument of 19th-century Afghanistani origin...
While these influential leaders may not hold similar political ideologies, they share a common origin--the South...
...black man arrives on a slave ship 300 years ago, knowing one English word: "Nigger." It is, or might as well be, his New World name. But Niger, the river, is his origin, his blood flow, which Calvin Baker, 24, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, traces through generations to the brackish wash of present time. Naming the New World (St. Martin's Press; 118 pages; $18.95) is a writer's gamble, a brief, fast-changing swirl of prose sketches, prose-poetry, and poetry standing naked. Such a recitation--it could be chanted, to drum beats, in an evening--might dissipate...
Cambridge law prohibits deliveries before 7 a.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. on weekends. Party noises beyond 50 feet from their origin after 11 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends also are forbidden...