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...apparently concerned that such a business would not break into an environment in which, seemingly, attracts only banks and national chains. For the last year and half, HRES has leased the vacant space at the corner of Brattle and Church streets at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars until they could find a grocer to occupy it. This sort of “surgical intervention” as James W. Gray, associate vice president of HRES, termed it could not simply be left up to other landlords. Although HRES has declared that it would not employ these methods...
Even the issue of Palestinian refugees is not the deal killer that many politicians and pundits suggest. Negotiators have tackled this topic before and a practical understanding is on the table. Israel will agree to allow a symbolic number of perhaps several thousand Palestinians to return to their homes in what is now Israel, addressing an injustice that has fueled the Palestinian struggle. Palestinians, for their part, will agree that for the sake of Israel's desire to maintain its Jewish character the bulk of refugees will be incorporated into the Palestinian state, or given citizenship in their current countries...
...this family's core are the members of Marjinal, a punk band that has helped over a thousand street kids earn cash by teaching them how to busk. "Music gives these kids a way to survive, to make some kind of living," says Mike, Marjinal's lead singer. "Punk, to me, is addressing the things that are rotten in society. It tells us that we have the ability to be independent and take care of each other...
...picture is worth a thousand words, and so it was in the photograph of Cruise, Streep and Redford. Cruise's cocky smile and arms thrown chummily around their shoulders said it all. Cruise looks like he's thinking, Hey, if TIME thinks I belong in their presence, maybe the public at large will also buy it. Dream on! Maarten Reuchlin, Rio De Janeiro
Hatchets and bludgeons won't do the job of remaking Jerusalem into two capitals--for though the city is crisscrossed by a thousand invisible lines that separate the lives of Arabs and Israelis, those lines can be porous, allowing a current of people and influences to flow back and forth. Upper-class Arab women cross westward for Pilates classes or to go shopping, and Israelis venture into the Old City for tasty hummus and a puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into...