Word: rails
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Americans refused to take in the "Ship of Fools" in 1939, the liner St. Louis, even though it sailed as close as Havana with its 1,128 refugees fleeing Hitler. The American military in 1944 declined to bomb the death camps or the rail lines leading to them. These decisions (documented in the museum) have a contemporary resonance: bureaucratic cowardice and fecklessness, indifference, appeasement, denial, tribal intolerance and fanaticism, racial hatred. This is the way these things happen. The Holocaust is a densely compacted drama of warning that needs to be remembered repeatedly. In the world...
...stipend, which strikes most elected officials as a prescription for political suicide. "It's not an option we're considering," Al Gore says flatly. "But it should be," says a White House aide, who hints that the Administration is "considering how and when we might step on the third rail" of foreign assistance. Jerusalem's take "may be safe this year, but that's it. Israel's going to have to take a hit sometime soon...
...Clinton adviser, "and the argument's going to be made again now that we want new money for Yeltsin. The question is whether we'll have the guts to make the case ourselves or whether we'll piggyback on Congress" -- assuming, of course, that Congress prefers the third rail to root canal...
...expect mature judgement from someone so new to the "real world." Yet, when an individual is given the voice and the concomitant power afforded any individual who publishes in a widely circulated paper, our expectations must rise to a commensurate level. No longer can a spiteful young man rail against his enemies with impunity--as he might do in the Harvard Union...
...enough even to begin repaying the $5.8 million he owes to a bank and a leasing company; he pays a pittance of $450 a month in interest to the leasing company, nothing to the bank. Hoshino resignedly says "the way things are can't be helped." But he does rail at politicians who "just work for their own political party or faction, and not for the entire country...