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...picture was not as bright in the West Bank and Gaza. Several factors combined to assure that poor living conditions would persist there: Palestinians remained largely dependent on Israeli markets for work, Israel imposed strict limitations on access to these markets and foreign investors (both Western and from the Arab world) were too hesitant in opening their coffers in order to allow for the creation of a local economic infrastructure...
...stage who don’t need to be there—and could certainly be lower and out of the line of sight. In the next scene, the bed has a high back, which cuts off the visibility of the characters on stage for many. Similar problems persist throughout the performance...
...Bush administration had asked for indefinite powers to detain immigrants, and Congress settled on a seven-day limit. The House also imposed a sunset provision on expanded surveillance measures—permission to use certain telephone and computer wiretaps without warrants will expire in four years rather than persist indefinitely...
...investment and will make it much more difficult for the government to help those Americans most affected by the recession. The current war and bleak economy should not be used as an excuse to further the administration’s pro-corporate agenda. The proposed corporate tax cuts will persist long after the economic recovery and may cause a serious fiscal crisis in Washington...
...syndrome also causes a persistent and often unconscious use of certain buzzwords to describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the Harvard Syndrome inevitably resorts to terms like lazy, arrogant, spoiled, overrated and elitist whenever our university comes up in conversation. Often, they will have little or no actual experience of Harvard, beyond a tour and perhaps a disastrous interview. Indeed, the sufferer may even have no idea what polysyllabic words like...