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...illegal Mexicans and Cubans are permitted to pour into this country by the thousands, but we deport the Haitians? I say that's racism...
...Israeli reaction was, naturally enough, pride in their military accomplishment. But there was not the same spontaneous celebration in the streets, for example, that greeted the July 1976 pinpoint Israeli commando raid on Uganda's Entebbe airfield. One reason was that as international criticism started to pour in, many Israelis sensed an impending isolation. Said Eli Ben-Hamo, 26, a Jerusalem café owner: "It was necessary. It had to be done. But I'm worried. We're doing it to ourselves. For years the world didn't much like us. Nowadays we're giving them reason...
...been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. Everyone in the world is dressed like us. We're the center of the universe. If we opened the floodgates tomorrow, the whole world would pour in here. I'm always talking about the invisible revolutions-the things we've done that we don't take credit...
...chromosomes. As an example, this winter saw the end of a two-year-long drama, with the departure of tenants from 7 Summer Rd. The last few residents finally gave up their legal battle and departed, weary of fighting for their homes against a University that was willing to pour thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of legal talent into evicting them. Many Harvard employees, angry at anti-union campaigns, have complained as well...
...uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. About the only good words for it now emanate from Ronald Reagan and certain beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then they retire to flip around iced cans of sacramental beer and debrief one another in a warm sundown glow of accomplishment. As for Reagan, in his presidential campaign he enshrined work in his rhetorical "community of values," along...