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...early days of the uprising. He did not throw rocks at the foreign army outside his door in order to see his name in print; he did not give his life so that he could be on the six o'clock news. Palestinians, Mr. Enis, risk their lives resisting the Israeli occupation because their lives under occupation are no longer worth living. Had this been Kuwaitis pelting Iraqis with stones, the world would have hailed them as freedom fighting heros. Why are the Palestinians not allowed the same support when they resist occupation? Until Americans understand that occupation is wrong...
SITTING PRETTY (New World Records). Conductor John McGlinn deserves some kind of sainthood for resurrecting this 1924 Jerome Kern delight. Amid its jolly ebullience, moments of gentler lyricism look ahead to such works as Show Boat and Roberta. Perfectly cast and impossible to resist...
...attack and threatens Saudi Arabia's survival. "If our calculations prove wrong and half of Riyadh is destroyed," says an Arab official privy to the war gaming now under way, "then I wouldn't be surprised if tactical nuclear weapons were used, and I don't think many would resist their...
Obviously, immigration creates problems as well. There are conflicts among various immigrant groups. U.S. immigration policy is not emphasizing the influx of the skilled and educated, thus calling into question what has been dubbed the brain gain. Some immigrant groups, especially Hispanics, seem to resist learning English, which in some states has already created a bilingual culture. That raises a deeply worrisome prospect. Is a healthy pluralism giving way to a corrosive separatism, the ideal of tolerance to reverse racism...
...illicit couple, their affair has been over for two years; subsequent vignettes show Robert's discovery of their love, the moments in a rented flat in which Jerry and Emma attempt to create their own alternative household, and, finally, the drunken winter party at which Emma is unable to resist Jerry's passionate advances...