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...said. “They don’t pay taxes; they impact the neighborhoods; everybody hates them. But if it weren’t for Harvard or MIT, we’d be Chelsea.” Councillor Craig A. Kelley echoed Healy’s sentiment. “It’s easy to trash Harvard, but Harvard is why people want to be here,” Kelley said in an interview. “[Criticizing Harvard] is very appropriate in context, but in a larger context, it’s about what Harvard?...
Many idealistic students brought to Israel by ISM, including Rachel Corrie, could be described as naïve pawns of Palestinian extremists looking to garner sympathy from the Western media. This sentiment was probably best expressed by a Hamas activist, who said of Corrie: “Her death serves me more than it served her. Going in front of the tanks was heroic. Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs...
...Bush Administration and its policies is any guide, then Muslim Americans - immigrant and African American alike - will not soon break with their new-found liberal allies. In the meantime, many non-Muslim Americans will be troubled by these developments and find in them further evidence of the widespread sentiment that Muslim Americans are not being straight with their fellow citizens, that they are hypocrites. Perhaps they are. But then non-Muslims ought to recognize that "hypocrisy" of the sort on view in Minneapolis last week is akin to the tolerance on which our pluralistic society depends. In fact, just such...
...session of Congress, under the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. With results projected in most races, the Democrats were set to win key battles in Connecticut, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Arizona, capitalizing on anger against the war in Iraq, Republican scandals and a broad anti-incumbent sentiment...
...victory was not total. In Kentucky and Virginia, both red state redoubts, incumbent Republicans held off tough challenges. But a large geographical shift of voter sentiment toward the Democrats in the Northeast and Ohio Valley was enough to push Democrats over the top . And two key wins in Arizona spelled trouble for the G.O.P. in the southwest and California...