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...quiet but tenacious leader, Reid has built his career on building consensus - cajoling members and sweetening deals with pet projects. The right disparages him for his occasional gaffes. He is often condemned by progressives for not calling Republicans' bluffs on threatened filibusters and rarely, if ever, using his 60-seat majority to ram through legislation. "I'm not so sure we have very many sticks available to us," says Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Reid is "an expert at the gentle art of persuasion. The members of his caucus see him as an honest broker and a straight...
That much is clear when the 50-year-old owner of Gaza City's oldest pet store holds up a particularly fluffy kitten. "This is one of the cats we breed here. It's a Siamese mixed with a Persian," he says proudly. "Siamese cats are known for their intelligence. They are the smartest of cats. Whereas Persians have the most beautiful...
...shop is the biggest cat, fish and bird supplier in all of Gaza, and that just about any Himalayan, Persian or Siamese in the coastal enclave can be traced back to him and his neatly kept log book. But his business is also a story of unlikely survival. While pet food is not among the items blocked by the Israelis from entering Gaza, it is expensive getting Meow Mix into the territory. Gazans must improvise on pet food. "These goods are luxury items," he says, standing before a wall of mostly empty fish tanks. "People need political and financial stability...
...blockade drove most of Gaza's economy, including parts of Draimli's pet business, underground. "Now we bring things like bird cages through the [smuggling] tunnels [on Gaza's border with Egypt]," he says, adding that they are no longer allowed to import the cages from Israel. "The price in Egypt is cheaper than it is in Israel. But the problem is that we have to pay $50 for each container to bring them through the tunnel. So we can't make any money...
...They’re] like YouTube videos. Are YouTube videos a distraction?” said the pet owner. “And having pets is therapeutic. If you have a rough day, you come back, you take the hamster out of the cage that is looking at you, and you pet it, and it’s fuzzy, it’s cute, and it overwhelms...