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Mann read part of the play aloud for the audience, adopting a Polish accent. In the passage, her protagonist spoke about her life before and during World War II and the plight of Jews under Hitler...
...plight of Harrison township in southeast Michigan is typical. Through the 1990s, local authorities did next to nothing to increase tax revenue, counting on bountiful state pass-throughs as a booming economy and stock market boosted the state's sales-and capital-gains-tax revenues. Indeed, many states were able to support municipalities and cut tax rates at the same time, a strategy that critics say is backfiring and is more to blame than the recession for the states' fiscal mess. Michigan is cutting revenue to townships like Harrison. Governor John Engler is expected to announce some $470 million...
...criticizing Sen. Wellstone’s supporters for politicizing his memorial service, the Staff blatantly overlooks the greater context of this tragedy. Wellstone was one of the last remaining deeply principled, truly liberal members of the Senate who was dedicated to the plight of working-class individuals...
...then that I decided to do something. I decided to speak to Vellucci during one of my occasional visits to Cambridge. Al had always been most cordial to me and proud that an East Cambridge boy had graduated from Harvard. I told him about my mother’s plight...
...Palestinian issue, on the other hand, has become an open sore that continues to erode the long-term strength of Washington's war on terror. The Palestinian plight has become the fulcrum on which the Muslim world's attitudes toward the West turn - and despite the hopes of some Administration hawks, that's unlikely to change even if the U.S. pulls off regime change in Baghdad. As much as the U.S. - and many Palestinians too - would like to see regime change in Palestine, it won't happen so long as Israeli tanks keep the West Bank in lockdown and allow...