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Elected to the K’Nesset, the Israeli parliament, on Jan. 10 to replace Labor Party representative Ophir Pines—who resigned when the liberal Labor party decided to join the conservative Netanyahu government—Wilf says that while naturally limited as part of the minority party, she believes that as one of only 120 members of the Israeli parliament she will have a large podium for her agenda, which is focused in large part on reforming the Israeli education system...
...Wilf says she “snapped back” out of the jaws of consulting, and her subsequent political career is part of an effort to give back to her motherland and the hallowed halls of her alma mater...
...part, Wilf sees a future for herself in the political arena—she hopes to remain there as long...
...President's hour in the lion's den was part of an aggressive week of politics - his first in many moons - that began with his well-received State of the Union address and proceeded through town meetings in Florida and New Hampshire. It was marked by a new willingness to engage the opposition party with cutting humor and offers of compromise. In the State of the Union, he had offered an olive branch to the Republicans - a new commitment to budget balancing (including a bipartisan commission to reduce the deficit that Republicans had been clamoring for), a new emphasis...
...tropical-island setting is an important part of the show's appeal. "People here tend to live in their own fantasies, or any world but the real one," says Ghazaleh, a young graduate student from northern Tehran. If escape is not possible - as appears to be the case for Jack, Hurley and Kate - then at least our trapped heroes can live in paradise, even if a smoke monster or the occasional polar bear threatens their existence. "If this story had taken place in Siberia, then nobody would have watched," says Masoud, a 28-year-old engineer from Tehran. The point...