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...shelter in squalid camps that the years have made permanent. From the ramshackle alleys of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, a camp crammed with 102,000 people, to the 1,800 in tiny Beit Jibrin, nestled inside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, more than 623,000 refugees are stuck in 27 camps across the occupied territories. An additional 612,000 live miserably in 32 camps in three neighboring countries. For generations, they have all been waiting for the right to return--to the homes they lost in Jaffa or Haifa or the verdant Galilee...
Once upon a time, in the land of corporate America, there was a giggling girl who had a dream that her popularity as a musician would not owe itself to partnerships with profit-minded conglomorates. And so she stuck her tongue out at the powerhouses of big business, packed her car with a box of home-made tapes and hit the road...
...soon after. Had Rubin’s alleged call to Moody’s been successful and led to the sale of Enron to Dynegy, Citigroup (together with J.P. Morgan, the other investment bank involved) would have made $90 million and Dynegy’s shareholders would have been stuck with Enron’s debts. If these allegations are proved true, Rubin will be morally obliged to follow Winokur’s lead and resign from the Corporation—perhaps only days after joining it. This is hardly the fresh start that the Corporation needs...
...They are sort of an albatross for us, but we’re stuck with them,” Meltzer said...
...Maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn’t go on. And [the figure] did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light—all this silly talk about line, color, and form, you know—because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.” —Willem de Kooning...