Word: strangerness
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Henry Rosovsky, of course, is no stranger to the job. As dean of the Faculty for more than a decade, Rosovsky is credited with founding Harvard's Core Curriculum. After a six-year absence, he returns this year to University Hall, replacing economist A. Michael Spence, who left this summer to become dean of Stanford University's business school...
Hoffman is also able to bring to life a complex supporting cast of characters in a few swift paragraphs. They travel from open hostility toward this stranger, to liking her despite her imperfections, to loving her because of them. The most complacent wife discovers that love can disappear, not overnight but in the course of a hundred tuna casseroles served every Friday. No one is immune from dissatisfaction and its companion, desire, which can be tamped down but comes back unannounced. "You might find it when you slipped your hand into a rubber glove to scour the kitchen sink...
...NEAR DUSK as a lanky but ornery-looking bandit strolls into Dodge City. Peering through his bifocals, speaking prudently and always at the right junctures, he announces that he's brought a stranger to town--Desperado Dave--and that he's taking him to the courthouse...
Johny Jahshan works as an accountant in the Galilee Christian College. His house on a hillside overlooking Nazareth has a middle-class comfort that makes a stranger think twice. This is a dissonance one sometimes feels among Palestinians who live very well. Their comfort does not invalidate their grievance, but it subtly shifts the moral ground, or at least complicates their status as victims. Israel has been economically profitable for many Palestinians, even as Israelis have exploited Palestinian labor and markets. Now, however, Palestinians are boycotting as many Israeli products as they...
...after all, a Jewish state. A stranger proffers hard-line Israeli logic: "Look, wars have consequences. This is a violent and dislocating century that has created millions of refugees all over the world. There are more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, occupying 5 million sq. mi. There are 3.8 million Israeli Jews on a tiny sliver of land. The Arabs have tried in war after war to destroy Israel. The Jews have prevailed. What do you expect from them? Besides, what law of history says that a people aspiring to be a nation will...