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...middle-aged man joins Lahav on stage to sing about the Zionist philanthropist Moses Montefiore, who built the first Jewish neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City in the 19th century. "I must help the Jews in Israel," he croons, as the clubbers sway and sing, "for there are pogroms in Russia." Those were the days...
...stop the Bush Administration: Military preparations continue apace, and U.S. officials are soliciting support from potential allies on the assumption that war will be necessary. And a report published in the Washington Post suggesting that Iraq may have supplied nerve gas to an al-Qaeda affiliate may have helped sway the U.S. public mood - despite the fact that even in the Washington Post story, other U.S. intelligence officials expressed skepticism over the claims...
...word committed, of course, is the catch. When it comes to reform, the government suffers from what can be called a productivity problem of its own. On the one hand, industrial lobbies dedicated to preserving the status quo have tremendous sway over politicians. And on the other, there is no doubt that increasing competition in the domestic economy will draw what are now very abstract concepts into harsh focus at the local level, bringing high unemployment (at least in the short term) and the chance of social unrest. That is a reality that Japanese society has routinely proven willing...
...senior U.S. and Pakistani officials, that would be a mission impossible. Many of the deeply religious clans there sympathize with bin Laden and are bound by tribal honor to shelter fugitives from the Pakistani police and army. The U.S. government's $27 million reward for bin Laden has little sway here; villagers don't trust the Pakistani government to cut them in on their share of the reward. They're just as suspicious of members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, who they believe might be collecting al-Qaeda payoffs and would kill them if they ratted...
...thousand men of Harvard want victory today/ For they know that o’er old Eli, fair Harvard holds sway/ So then we’ll conquer all old Eli’s men/ And when they day ends, we’ll sing again/ Ten thousand men of Harvard gained victory today...