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...Givon, past Ramot on the edge of Jerusalem, right near Ramallah. She said that after the lynching, she took her three children and moved in with her mother. She took everything that was valuable to her - photographs and jewelry - because she was afraid the house might get ransacked. It struck me that where she lives is not a stereotypical religious settlement. Givon is basically secular and affluent...
...time when economists spoke of a "new era" from which recessions had been banished. The federal reserve was held in high esteem. The stock market was robust. Unfortunately, his extra-presidential talents notwithstanding, Hoover's one term administration proved astoundingly incompetent. Ever the tinkerer, when the Crash of '29 struck, he strove to intervene, mounting what "progressive" economists dubbed "a new attack on poverty." Big businesses were prodded to keep wages high, resulting in massive, intractable unemployment. The infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff was enacted, leading to the implosion of international trade. And tax rates were hiked drastically on both incomes...
...told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker." He dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried to run him over with a car. He left Louisiana at 21 after the man behind him in line at a gay bar was struck over the head with a baseball bat. After years of applying makeup to his younger sister and misfit friends ("I figured if I could make them feel beautiful, I wouldn't feel so ugly myself"), he set out for New York City. Within a year, he did his first...
...Hollywood, she's popular, she's interesting, and she looked terrific in Playboy," said a woman of 24. "I hope she gets the money." Two men in their 20s, neither of whom appeared to be a genius to begin with, were struck dumb at the sight of Smith. They waited with pen and paper, panting like Labradors...
...Before you go crafting your sob story, it bears noting that college admissions officers are among the world's finest b.s. detectors. A case in point: one student's Cornell essay about a relative's homosexuality struck an admissions reader as gratuitous: "This has got shock value written all over...