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...American Jewish community. He would be wrong in this case too however. Many American Jews are critical of Israeli policies. This is apparent in both Jewish and non Jewish publications. This past semester at the Kennedy School, Boston Friends of Peace. Now cosponsored a speech by Amos Oz, a leader of Peace Now movement in Israel. Kurzman simply shows his ignorance when he says "Moral claims are stifled in an unquestioning acceptance of the immoral actions of the Israeli government...
...pluralism and internal struggle as a good thing. Some, following the footsteps of those several years ago who called for "normalization" (the emergence of Israel as a normal state with standard modern features), see pluralism as a shared chracteristic with the liberal West. Some offer additional justifications. A mos Oz in the recently translated In the Land of Israel: "A living civilization is a drama of struggle between interpretations, outside influences, and emphases, an unreleating struggle over what is the wheat and what is the chaff, rebellion for the sake of innovation, dismantling for the purpose of reassembling differently...
Networks and advertisers, too, see home taping as something akin to a biblical curse. Argues AFL-CIO Executive Jack Golodner, who represents TV and film performers and technicians: "Take The Wizard of Oz, which is shown every year on television. If 40 to 50 million people have taped it, what sponsor would want to buy time on another broadcast?" But it is the fast-forward button that has advertisers most agitated, for with it, says Valenti, viewers can "assassinate" commercials while either taping programs or playing them back. Says Richard Kostyra, senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, the mammoth...
What Castro failed to mention is that strict food rationing (2 Ibs. of meat a month, 2 oz. of coffee every two weeks) is an integral part of revolutionary Cuban life. Indeed, recalling that Cuba in 1959 had a prosperous middle class, Cuban Expert Wayne Smith, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., notes that "in the great equalizing process, the standard of living has declined...
...sweet smell of success now comes in a bottle. For the chief executive officer or those who merely aspire to corporate distinction, a Cleveland firm is manufacturing a men's cologne at $45 per 4-oz. flask called-what else?-C.E.O. The scent is said to be "gracious. When you get in this class you want something that whispers." Next: Ms. C.E.O., a fragrance the company plans to sell to top ladies...