Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boiling-hot tea contorting the face of Knesset member and prominent peace advocate Ya'el Dayan, daughter of war hero Moshe Dayan. According to eyewitnesses, she was approached by Yisrael Lederman, who asked, "Do you want tea?" Dayan responded, "Please." Then Lederman, later revealed to be a right-wing extremist and convicted murderer, allegedly tossed the steaming brew into her face. Dayan suffered second-degree burns; Lederman turned himself in two days later. Dayan lamented in the daily Yediot Aharonot that nothing had improved since the assassination. Political extremism in Israel, she said, is "a hothouse that is continuing...
...appearance of the five officers, now under the wing of the Truth Commission's witness-protection program, constitutes what Alex Boraine, the commission's deputy chairman, calls a "trickle that could become a river." As Tutu's staff begins to serve subpoenas on officials implicated in the testimony so far, the pressure will mount for other alleged perpetrators to come forward to confess and receive amnesty. They have only until a Dec. 15 cut-off date. As the applications pour in--there are already some 2,000--commissioners believe they will hear evidence that will point high up the chain...
...eagerness to condemn a right-wing organization, the staff has forgotten one of the first rules of journalism: unsigned staff pieces represent the opinion of the publication; signed pieces represent only the view of the author. The article in Peninsula, offensive as it may be, was the work of only one person, and therefore only he should be held accountable for that article, as the author himself pointed out in a letter to The Crimson last week. To argue about the use of the word "we" is to blur a line which is inherently very clear: individuals are responsible...
Equally important, the race tests the party's ability to bridge its racial divisions in the South. Louisiana Democrats, like others in the region, have split into two camps: Landrieu's largely white moderate wing and Fields' predominantly black liberals. Landrieu, a former state treasurer and political moderate--pro-choice but, like Bob Dole, in favor of a capital-gains tax cut--ran afoul of her party's liberals last year when she and Fields were locked in a bitter gubernatorial primary. Fields backers say it was racially insensitive of her to run ads saying she was more electable than...
...Thirty years ago,] there was more reportage, more straight reportage.... The press is antiseptically objective today, largely because of the wholesale right-wing attack. Statistical studies demonstrate that, in fact, there was more information conveyed about what the candidates said, what their positions were and what their politics were about, than what there is now. This is the nadir of coverage of politics. The networks made the decision because they claim the public isn't interested, but this is a self-fulfilling prophecy and entirely self-serving. Their method...is more debased than ever. The hacks of the past were...