Or is that too difficult to deal with while kvetching over having to stand on bare (and therefore possibly germ-ridden) tile in a magnificent hotel shower?

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The Gaza crisis also triggered a round of name-calling within the world of British Islam that has laid bare a rapid diminution of the middle ground on which emollient types hope to stand.

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He had to stand and move and stretch his arms and want that ball until it hit his bare hands and stayed there.

NEWYORKER: Uncle Rock