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...right and the Jewish settler movement. Sternhell suffered minor injuries. Other alleged attacks include stabbing and wounding an Arab whom he believed was making sexual advances in a Jerusalem park in 1997, and attacking a police station in 2006 to distract police officers from a nearby gay-pride parade...
...take a lot of pride in our abilities up front,” senior center Alex Spisak said of the offensive line. “We know that we will control the offense, [and] we will make the plays...
After Slumdog Millionaire's triumph at the Oscars, the children were catapulted into stardom. Azhar tells TIME with pride, "the children in my school call me a hero." Lade, who monitors the children's progress at school through regular updates from the teachers, corroborates that the other children are awed by their status. She says the combination of sudden fame without balancing guidance at home has made the child stars lose touch with reality. "This is a matter of grave concern," says Noshir Dadrawala, one of the trustees. "Both the children have attendance below 40%. They are traveling...
...Adiga-Desai stamp. (A strain of nationalism too is on display: Books by South Asian authors on non-South Asian topics, or non-South Asians on South Asia, find no place on the latter shelf.) A book that “matters” enough to merit national pride often connotes a thick tome of realism—one that attempts to cram between its two covers either all the dramas of family life or an entire sordid cityscape.In practice, this drive toward realism prompts writers to turn to a set of stock cultural representations closely linked to historical portrayal...
...associated with a middle or low income background—that isn’t a problem for me. I’m not ashamed of it, I’m proud. Some people ask, ‘you take pride in cleaning toilets?’ Well actually, I do,” Sandler says. “If you can do this well that’s a model for other things in your life...