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But nor do I think some wrenching social and economic difficulties in a still-nascent constitutional democracy are comparable to forced starvations, reigns of terror, and the Gulag.
The wrenching loss of manufacturing jobs (the source of low-skill jobs at decent wages) and the flight of the white middle class to the suburbs began before the riots.
The WSJ says it's very unlikely Starr will bring criminal charges against President Clinton while he's in office, but that he will probably dump the matter into Congress' lap as a potential impeachment case, thus plunging the country into a "wrenching political dilemma" given the president's surging popularity.
The book, Said's 17 th , is a wrenching, intimate account of growing up in Cairo's wealthy Levantine expatriate community, of summering in the dreary Lebanese resort town of Dhour el Shweir, and of visiting the family home in Jerusalem, sometimes for as long as several months.
The show is arranged in a manner to do just that, though with a resulting wrenching of chronology and little attention to Soutine's life.