When someone's freedom and, in an American context, possibly his life, as well is at stake, it surely behoves forensic-science laboratories to take precautions that are equally strong.

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The subject of its first portrait is Camp Kinderwelt, a summer camp in New York's Catskill mountains whose mixture of Zionist fervour and Yiddish vernacular never, in an American context, had a chance.

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His speech to Congress, at the invitation of the Republican majority, had been welcomed on the hawkish Israeli right as an opportunity for the prime minister to flex his political muscle in an American domestic context.

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The region has its own internal balance of powers, and in that context, many states welcome an American presence in the region.

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