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...population of Palestine reached 400,000 Arabs and 60,000 Jews, scattered over 50,000 square miles of abandoned wasteland. This is how the first Zionists found their homeland, when they began to pave the way for their nation to return home...
Mark Twain described this wasteland following his visit to the Holy Land in 1867: 'Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies...Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost its ancient grandeur and has become a pauper village...the wonderful temple which was the pride and glory of Israel is gone...
Thus the Ogaden, a wasteland traditionally forsaken by all but a few thousand nomads, has become the center of an international crisis. The Soviet Union, having lost out in Egypt and Somalia in recent years, is making a high-stakes play for Ethiopia. With its Communist help, the Addis Ababa junta (known as the "Dergue") has a strong chance not only of defeating the Somalis in the Ogaden, but also of strengthening its position against the Eritrean secessionists, whose guerrilla forces control most of that province. The Soviet press has attacked Somalia as a bastion of reactionary forces, even though...
...metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that television was a "vast wasteland"), but its effects are complicated...
...their own seminars, their own living area, their own dining hall, their own parties, their own intramurals, their own squads in inter-collegate sports--including their own crew shells--and their own literary magazine. Ever since Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, led his chosen people out of the wasteland of the Quad to the chosen Yard, these traditional but mostly fluid divisions have become solid barriers to interaction between the classes. Recent innovations like closing the Union to upperclassmen during lunch, keeping the Union open on weekends(so freshmen can avoid the truma of eating...