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...Kishinev refuseniks who have been applying to rejoin immediate family members in Israel for the past three to six years, have been denied exit visas on the grounds that they possess state military secrets. David Vodovoz, one of the six refuseniks, worked as a construction painter during his military service and denies possessing any such secrets...
...field hockey works because of its unique social origins; the size, speed and strength advantages men possess, factors that normally weight any athletic contest between the sexes heavily toward men, are aptly compensated for by women's game experience and stick-handling skills. The majority of women who play house hockey have played at least one year in high school, often four. For most men, house intramurals are their first exposure to field hockey, and while high school seasons of soccer and ice hockey help them pied up the game quickly, they have not yet closed the gap in skill...
Leaders must believe in power, he says. They must have a sense of majesty, possess dignity, a touch of poetry and at the same time a tolerance for what is imperfect. "Too often these days we have developed self-hatred because we have had to act imperfectly...
After a year, though, the authorities caught up with him and reminded Buchwald that he did not possess a high school diploma. But instead of kicking him out of school, they made him a "special student," forbidding him to work for a degree. That was just fine for the young scholar, who told his superiors, "I don't have a high school diploma; there's no sense having a college degree...
...there are still four main attributes psychiatrists possess that no other candidates can offer. The first is the ability to deal with people in pressing situations, a gift that graces the profession so naturally that one wonders why the country has had to wait so long to see it applied to a political context...