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...suppress the intifadeh -- the uprising against Israeli rule in the occupied territories that began in December 1987. Tough and unrelenting toward the protesters, Rabin is said to have told his troops to ''break their bones,'' ordering deportations and the destruction of Palestinian houses. Yet he was quicker than many to grasp the import of the uprising. As early as February 1988, Rabin was telling Labor Party activists, ''I've learned something in the past 2 1/2 months -- among other things that you can't rule by force over 1.5 million Palestinians.'' Annexing the occupied territories would dilute the Jewish character...
...after realizing Americans’ love for pets, Dumas and her family found a quicker way to explain their background. “We started introducing ourselves by saying, ‘We are from Iran, where the Persian cats come from,’” she said. “I think that helped our popularity immensely...
...people seem to have grown way too obsessed with the lure of the fast track and the promise of quick and easy money—so obsessed, in fact, that I am reminded of when Yoda tells Luke that the Dark side of the force is “quicker, easier,” but not better. People are willing to do almost anything to get into these companies, and no time is too soon to start...
...Asked if he had a "personal message" for President Bush concerning Hurricane Katarina, the Iranian leader said, "Wherever people are in a difficult situation, it causes a lot of pain for us. And I think that the government of the USA should have acted much quicker. . . and if people had been informed earlier, they would have been able to help better...
...levee breach has been fixed. The people have been evacuated. Army Corps of Engineers magicians will pump the city dry, and the slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors' narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size commercials with somber string music will be left to TV. The story will be sanitized as our nation's politicians congratulate themselves on a job well done. Americans of all stripes will...