Word: path
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...among us question the motives of those who seek opportunities in the corporate world, while the pragmatists argue that only by accessing the levers of power can we have real impact. After countless debates, we have resigned ourselves to the fact that each will choose his or her own path in advancing the cause...
...Meiping's friends came to visit Cheng at odd hours and urged her to seek revenge. Suspecting a trap, she refused. Groups of schoolchildren suddenly began harassing her in the street, shouting, ''Spy! Imperialist spy!'' She narrowly escaped death when a mysterious bicyclist deliberately knocked her down in the path of an oncoming bus. Her health slowly improved, however. She did not have cancer but merely a hormonal disturbance. And she began to benefit from the changes in China's overall political situation. When Chou En-lai died in January 1976 the radicals were still in control...
...find the question offensive. It implies that the answer is yes. And further, that the asker knows the true ''way'' and Israel does not. The question suggests that Israel, in making its way through history, may have obliviously or foolishly blundered into swamps or deserts off the true path. Would anyone ask if France had lost its way? If Japan had lost its way? And yet: Israel, although an ancient people, is a new country, unlike France or Japan. Moreover, Israel, like the U.S., is essentially an idea, a vision, a mission, a created entity. Like the U.S., Israel...
...wrong for Israel at the moment of its greatest triumph, the Six-Day War. He argues that while the 1967 victory was splendid for the Jewish ego, in Israel and in the Diaspora, the demonstration of such brilliant power, whatever advantages it brought, eventually led down a path of aggressiveness and grandiosity. After the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion, then in retirement, warned Israel that it should give back all the captured territories very quickly, ''for holding on to them would distort, and might ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.'' Prime Minister Levi Eshkol offered to return almost all the territories...
...this semester, no Harvard students have chosen the same path...