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...place." To escape detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed to the modern-day bootleggers. Sighs former State Senator Lynn Newbry: "I suppose it's a similar situation to when alcohol was prohibited. You just can't get all the stills...
Henry Maier, mayor of Milwaukee: "When are we going to awaken to the plight of our cities? When we begin airlifting its victims to the suburbs...
Though I watched Holocaust, I found that I could not feel the same sympathy for the plight of the Jews as I would have 30 years ago. We have since been made vividly aware of the Zionist Jews' shameful treatment of the Palestinian people, who were not even remotely responsible for the suffering of the Jews in Europe...
...there any more petitions?" There were none, and the majlis ended. Later the Prince and his assistants would go over the pleas presented that day. Those that involved legal matters would be referred to the courts; petitioners seeking money would be granted assistance if their plight was deemed worthy...
This first novel is commemoration of and tribute to some forgotten victims of the Nazi death camps: the gypsies of Eastern Europe. If the world is touched by the plight of the Jews, writes Stefan Kanfer. "what are we to say to a people totally annihilated or scattered, with no testament or psalms to calibrate the deep well of the past, no compensatory county, no telethons, no bond rallies, no touring orchestras...no prophets except the ones in the store windows who tell fortunes for a dollar...