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Tel: 340-277-7000 FOR CONGRESS UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS FIRST TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2015-2016 Named to the Committees on Agriculture and Oversight and Government Reform Named as the Freshman representative on the Democratic Lead- ership Steering and Policy Committee Name...

…ion, and especially the Obama administration, had not paid off, so it was time to try something else. Accordingly, the first high-level meeting between the two sides took place at the White House on May 15, when John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, received Jeno Megye...

…xercising my own freedom of speech to criticize a judge for an opinion she wrote. This certainly made me appreciate our First Amendment. Here is the story: One day in my office I opened an envelope and saw a notice that an Italian prosecutor in the city of Turin had initiated a...

…d a tolerant, functioning democracy and those who were ready to use demagoguery and violence to get their way. Peres’s first order of business was to put in place a new cabinet. He did, briefly, consider giving up the Defense Ministry and putting me there. But instead, he made m...

…hat was the equivalent of a neon sign saying: “I am a paratrooper.” Although the Red Cross man noticed the boots, he at first made no comment. Then, rolling up the pants leg of Bibi’s overalls, he saw his Beretta — not inside his waistbelt, but inside the boot. The next thing I h...

… obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they are so fortunate as to find one. Indeed, Mill knows that authority has first to be created before we can go about limiting it. For without authority, however dictatorial, there is a fearful void, as we all know too well from Iraq i...

…or the tenth anniversary of Israel, there was a national exhibition celebrating the achievements of the state. I paid a first visit on my own. I was curious to see what was on show. But as I walked through, I couldn’t help noticing the lack of security. Two days later, I returned...

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT Behind the scenes at the 2017 Academy Awards with filmdom’s first lady of Oscar cheerleading (my close friends know | was captain of the twirlers in high school) By Peggy Siegal UPDATED: Tuesday at 6pm Was this year different from all other years at the Oscars?...

…eir own nests after 2.5 years. They leave their mothers at 3-4 years. Human children are pretty much useless during the first 10-12 years, but during each phase, their brains have the opportunity to encounter many times as much training data as a gorilla brain. Humans are literal...

…itnians’ own name for the most serious outbreak of violence since 1967: the “intifada”. The uprising. At least for the first week or two, we assumed its ferocity and scale would subside. Our immediate aim was to contain it, and limit the human cost on both sides. Yet when Dan an...

…e a capitalist short-circuit. It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable enough to spend money on. The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die. I hadn’t exercised my throwing-out muscles in some time....

…ing interpretation to the repeat of justice. My favorite, the one I had proposed in my Bar Mitzvah speech, was that the first “tzedek” meant legal justice, while the second meant compassionate justice. Judge Bazelon corrected me: “Compassion must come before the law. The first me...

… “But did Snowden do what Frost did in your book.” “That is for you to decide,” he answered with a sly smile. “It’s my first novel.” When I asked if he could arrange for me to see Snowden, he said that first I would have to first submit my questions to Ben Wizner, Snowden’s Ame...

…mitments. I knew that his default response to Obama’s call for a settlement freeze would be “no.” And it was, delivered first to the cabinet and then to the public, as soon as he got back from his talks with the President. In my repeated meetings with Bibi in the weeks that foll...

…4246 It all came to a sudden conclusion one sunny afternoon in the Caribbean. Jeffrey pulled himself up to the ladders first step and climbed up the next four steps to the top of the dock. His chest was heaving rapidly as he sat down catching his breath. Ghislane was the next on...