"The tiger is under a state of siege, " laments Ranjit Singh, head of the Tiger Conservation Program.

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State voters who would lay siege to their state legislatures at the slightest hint of a proposed state income tax are flustered at the prospect of doing the same to Washington.

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If the life too often takes the place of the plot, this is redeemed by a vivid evocation of what it was like to grow up in the pre-state Israel of the 1940s, with all the music and dynamism and the constant sense of siege.

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