By Jack Straw, scarecrow Popular culture has given rise to the misconception that as I am a person of straw, that material accounts for all the contents of my stuffing, but the real figure seldom gets higher than one twenty-fifth ...
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The long-term implications of the discovery remain unclear. Jerusalem, January 29 – Scandal gripped the ultra-orthodox world this week following a discovery that the celestial beings who serve as the subject of many conceptual inquiries perform gavottes, horas, and other rhythmic ...
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“Our teachers will be free to discuss the German-led extermination of Jews in Europe, provided they phrase their lessons to imply that the Nazis had no choice but to kill all the Jews threatening to overrun Birkenau, Belsen, Mauthausen, and Sobibor, for ...
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The party seeks to forestall electoral decline. Tel Aviv, January 23 – One of Israel’s founding political parties now faces electoral decline as the country’s electorate drifts rightward, but believes it can counter or stave off stagnation by compromising on ...
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A spammer who perform his paid work for both shady lenders and political campaigns confirmed that replying to texts with “Remove” as instructed if one wishes not to receive such solicitations in the future has the opposite effect. Kiryat Malachi, ...
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“We’re still going to take Palestinian allegations of war crimes or atrocities at face value and maybe ask questions later, but probably not.” Washington, January 23 – Three days after botching its coverage of a silent teenager confronted by a ...
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“Firing rockets and incendiary devices into our communities is bad enough, but appropriating the recordings of our soldiers and editing the footage to make it look like the soldiers did something they didn’t – well, we’re not going to tolerate ...
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By the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Selma, January 21 – You don’t seem to need the encouragement, but now that my birthday has come around again, so has a boost in the apparent drive you have for taking ...
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“The one place in the entire Middle East with a growing, thriving Christian population is the one country these people oppose because it’s a Jewish state.” Bethlehem, January 16 – The Prince of Peace, King of the Jews, Son of ...
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“Do not even get me started on the treatment of women,” snapped Egyptian scholar Alnisa’ Eahirat. Doha, January 17 – A group of societies from the Mediterranean to southeast Asia whose common heritage includes a language that equates dark-skinned Africans ...
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