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...spying on his staff (as well as having access to all the faxes sent by NELC and by the Center for Jewish Studies who share the same fax machine.) We do not care whether reading letters not addressed to him was legal or not, and would like to refer the students to a higher ethical and moral law, one instituted in Germany a thousand years ago by Rabbenu Gershom ben Judah Ma'or Ha'golah who called for a herem, a ban, to be imposed on those who read other peoples' letters. The Staff of the Semitic Museum (until December...
...informality that can make Aspin agreeable as a man also made him unsuitable as a front man. At congressional hearings he was apt to put his elbow on the table and cradle his chin in one hand. He can irritate colleagues by referring to them by their last name only, or sometimes just the first. Military brass were startled to hear Aspin refer to General Colin Powell at a briefing by saying "Colin will take care of that." A senior Administration official summed up the problem: "Lacks gravitas...
Rhino Records has come to refer to itself as the master of reissue. For once, a company's rhetoric matches its place in the market...
...People are disillusioned," she says. "We have education and health care, but we don't have food or freedom. What can I give my child?" She feels caged and angry. "They control everything," she says, making the gesture of a hand stroking a beard, which is how Cubans silently refer to their supreme leader, Fidel Castro. The woman down the hall reports regularly to the local block committee about her, says Ana, "because I am not a conformist." She finds peace in her Bible, though her faith has earned her a black mark on the dossier that follows all Cubans...
...right-wing alliances and interest groups currently yearning to take jabs at the Democrats, few stand in a better position to deliver a knockout punch than the Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. And in Halperin, they have a target so enticing that Republican staff members privately refer to him as "the real, red meat...