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...Palestinians were expelled by the new state of Israel in 1948. We comprise nearly 20 percent of Israel’s population. Yet Lieberman—an immigrant from Moldova—would have us stripped of our second-class citizenship in a land swap with a future Palestinian state??a state whose very existence Netanyahu has yet to accept...
...Bush was running for president, talking about how he didn’t believe in quota systems, he was using quota systems for distributing money in Texas,” Haney says. These systems—which allocate state funds based on the number of convictions made by the state??s drug task force—are indirectly responsible for the heroine’s conviction in “American Violet.” But Haney insists that “American Violet” will transcend its moral and political content...
Minnesota Governor Tim J. Pawlenty cancelled plans to give a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday evening after learning of his state??s first probable case of swine flu. He was scheduled to give a presentation titled “The Need to Transform America’s Education, Health Care, and Energy Systems,” but instead chose to remain in his home state to respond to the development. “This is a situation that can become more serious,” he said in a press conference yesterday...
...consumers who are already hard hit by the economic downturn. But she added that the negative impacts of the sales tax would probably be minimal for Harvard Square stores, since shoppers would probably view the tax as a “necessary evil” for relieving the state??s financial difficulties...
Yesterday afternoon, the Phillips Brooks House Association rallied alongside community organizers and other advocacy groups at the Massachusetts State House in response to the state??s budget proposal, which may result in cutbacks to funding for the association’s youth programs...