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Officially, Question Five reads: "Shall the Representatives from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress and the President of the United States to achieve peace in the Middle East by: demanding that Israel end its violations of Palestinian human rights and its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; stopping all expenditures of U.S. taxpayers' money for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; and favoring the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with peace for all in the region including Israel...
...which was as much an announcement for a 1992 candidacy as a campaign stop for the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket, Jackson spoke directly to the role of the youth of America in this coalition, urging them to participate in the political process. Challenging the prevailing mood of apathy, Jackson called upon students to recognize their latent political power. "Whenever young America has come alive," he said, "America has always been made better. By the sheer power of your courage, your innocence, your idealism, your will to make a difference, you've always made America better...
Woodbury insisted, however, that all renovation and beautification projects will not infringe upon the integrity of the square...
Unfortunately, as the admissions guide, to its credit, mentions, standing between you and that Nobel Laureate is your teaching fellow. What the guide neglects to elaborate upon, however, is the extent to which you must depend on your section leader: he/she interprets the word from on high, answers your questions, and perhaps most importantly, grades your papers. If a teaching system which gives disproportionate weight to section leaders than to full professors is accepted on face value (which is, of course, debatable), for $20,000, competent section leaders does not seem like too much...
...study -- at 9.2 million words, the longest biography in history -- several years later, just after the victory over Germany. By then Churchill was beginning to talk about the Soviet threat, which seemed to him as menacing as that of Germany ten years before. "An iron curtain is drawn down upon ((the Soviet)) front," he wrote President Truman. "We do not know what is going on behind...