The central characters' parents some immigrant and impoverished, others here for a generation and flourishing work as buttonmakers, have small factories, run flop houses, are fur-workers, real-estate operators, cigarmakers, grocery- and furniture-store proprietors, and, in one notable instance, the political boss of the Jewish West Side.
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Despite the relative political activism of the south-west, and the variegated nature of the constituency, sufficient numbers of voters may be unconvinced by the arguments for change.
There is one more striking parallel, but this is not a characteristic of the three political ideologies, but one of the West.
Parallel to the penetration of Arab anti-Semitism into the Western discourse through the pan- Arabic media, and the embrace of overt anti-Semitism by the European media and political class, over the past decade, we have witnessed the development of an alliance between the West's political Left and Islamist movements.
The inability of Israel and the Palestinians to reach a political agreement over the West Bank and Jerusalem has arguably been one of the major obstacles to peace in the region.
More important still, the political and cultural institutions of the West with their liberal values represent the best hope for a stable world of self-governing peoples.
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States leveraging their cash balance to purchase private property has the potential to quickly metastasize into an ever-more hazardous situation as power and control over enormous influential sectors become consolidated into the hands of actors as a means of reaching political and military goals at the peril of the West.
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Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with a population of nearly 175 million according to the CIA World Factbook, and is the political and economic powerhouse of West Africa.
The fact that the ladies in Philadelphia decided to take their stand against Israel and that that Clinton and Obama attack Israel for building homes for Jews in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria while they all ignore the suffering of the women of Islam speaks volumes about the degradation of the West under the Left's social and political leadership.
Hoping to broaden his political base from the Cholla region in the south-west of the country, Mr Kim relaunched his political party in November.
European leaders, as well as some American politicians, have repeatedly requested that Ukraine address the situation with Tymoshenko and her allies, who, as leaders of the opposition, threatened the unpopular autocratic administration of Yanukovych, and, the West believed, were victims of political persecution.
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Mali is in the grip of an unprecedented political crisis, one of the most serious since the landlocked West African country gained independence from France in 1960.
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He had understood that it thrived on the fear, weakness, and spinelessness of the West's political class.
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Patrick Burns, the BBC political editor in the West Midlands, said the result of four district counts showed the "near-collapse" of the Liberal Democrat vote, even in MP Lorely Burt's Solihull ward, where the party's share of the vote dropped from 43% at the last general election to 3.4%.
To block this possibility, the government must begin educating opinion shapers and political leaders in the West about the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood It must also call for a cut-off of US military aid to Egypt.
Turning to the causes of the shift, Mr White listed political fears, the pattern of violence and "the almost total abandonment of the west bank by RUC personnel".
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Martin Salter, the Labour MP for Reading West, has been at the head of political support for the move and has worked closely with Mrs Longhurst.
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The bigger political issue is the turnover of statehouses to Republican control throughout the industrial mid-west in this time of Congressional reapportionment.
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Whether state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver doomed the West Side stadium out of political pique at mayoral neglect is beside the point.
He denounced the House of Commons as the longest-running farce in the West End, but Cyril Smith proved from the start of his political career one of its most distinctive figures, as large in spirit as he was in person.
Davy Crockett was a legend in his own time: a pioneer of the American West and US congressman who established the political book tour.
In the West Bank, Palestinian demonstrations demanding the release of political prisoners held by Israel have grown daily wider and more violent, and some 2, 000 detainees are on hunger strike.
There are constant and vehement political and media debates in Israel concerning its policies in the West Bank, but because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media, and most American citizens are unaware of circumstances in the occupied territories.
At home, through patronage, repression of political opponents, introduction of Islamic laws, and incitement against the West, these democratically elected regimes have been moving their people further and further away from secularism.
But conservatives feared that embracing universal values would mean acknowledging the superiority of the West's political systems.
But if Mr Hu is allowed to move up as planned, it will demonstrate a level of political maturity that the West should give it credit for.
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