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...when Meese was a deputy in the same office. Jensen helped organize the mass arrests of Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement of the mid-'60s and prosecuted radicals such as Huey Newton and the kidnapers of Patty Hearst. Jensen does not need Senate confirmation, but his tenuous status could be an election-year liability, reminding voters of the disarray at the department and the ethical quandaries that have plagued Reagan's Administration. Lamented a top White House adviser: "We are just going to have to live with...
Joseph and other are on the streets because they have slipped through the tenuous safety nets of society; they stay there because, after a few years, they cannot imagine how to get anywhere else. Yet despite the growling numbers of drifters, the public at large still treats them as though they don't exist. Certainly the magnitude of the problem is overwhelming; one can't give a quarter to everyone on the street, and a quarter doesn't go all that...
...replaced the Babis' militant zeal with strict nonviolence. Baha'u'llah spent many of his final years in a Turkish prison or under house arrest near present-day Haifa, Israel. There the Baha'is built his tomb and established their world headquarters. This tenuous connection with Israel further inflames Muslim suspicions...
...came to Israel first, early in this century, and hold most of the professional and prestigious positions. The Sephardim came later and are generally of the lower-class. Menachem Begin and the Likud party appealed to the Sephardim, who felt ignored and snubbed by the Labor party. While a tenuous generalization, it has been largely (but far from wholly) the Sephardim who have supported Likud's expansionist policies...
...harming those who were exposed. Those who favor reverse discrimination, however, would require many whites to bear the burden of redressing the wrongs of their great-grandfathers. And the ancestors of other whites (for example recent immigrants) took no part in the subjugation of Blacks, removing even that tenuous link to guilt, yet reverse discrimination punishes them just the same...