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...joyful Palestinians ululated and fired pistols into the air, Israeli forces began their withdrawal from parts of the West Bank. Despite pledges of peace and brotherhood signed last month in Washington, the transfer of power in several towns was terse and businesslike at best. A banner in Arabic that stretched across one town's city hall read TODAY SALFIT, TOMORROW JERUSALEM. Scoffed an Israeli soldier: "Wishful thinking...
When I first arrived at Harvard as a transfer student, I was given a key to New Quincy room 305. I entered the suite expectantly, surveyed the large, open and dusty common room, and climbed the stairs, Bedroom A was occupied. As was bedroom B, C and D. A sudden sense of discomfort gripped me. Where, then, was I to live? "In the common room, I guess," was the answer I got from Scott, one of my new roommates. And so for ten days, I slept on a bed in the common room, with no furniture, no privacy...
...most divisive political issues, fueled, on one hand, by a backlash against immigration and affirmative action and, on the other, by the failures and ideological strictures of some existing bilingual programs. Last fall, for example, when Westminster officials pushed teachers to take Spanish and Vietnamese classes or face a transfer, the teachers' union organized a takeover of the school board, voting in three new members who have vowed to phase out bilingual classes such as Marina Williams'. "It is unconstitutional to force American citizens to learn a foreign language in order to keep their job," says Michael Verringia...
...appropriately misterioso segue into the finale. Here, as Beethoven intended, the brass are brought out in full force, and regardless of pedantic issues of whether they are reinforced or not, the ultimate effect is still spine-tingling. The remastering and refurbished sound are even better than the original transfer, as promised...
...found myself alone." --Israeli militant Moshe Feiglin, leader of the group Zu Artzenu (This Is Our Land), after attempting to lead a group of West Bank settlers in a protest to block an Israeli highway. The protest was in response to the Israeli government's agreeing to transfer several West Bank towns to Palestinian control...