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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.


Kai Bird

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ISABELLA BIRD I think he'll make an immediate impact because of the skills that he has.
LARRY BIRD While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust...
LARRY BIRD I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the ...
LARRY BIRD He's got great length and he's one of the best shooters in the league. He gives us another dimension...
LARRY BIRD I think what it came down to is that our owner wants to win and, in the end, we did this deal becaus...
LARRY BIRD Over the last four, five years, you've seen some of the things, and maybe we did bend over too much ...
LARRY BIRD I never dreamed that it would be like this. We're very disappointed in the fact that we had the guys...
LARRY BIRD I'm a firm believer you have to be patient in this league. The teams that are patient in trades (hav...
LARRY BIRD I can't guarantee all our guys are going to be here, but the way we've been talking it seems like it...
LARRY BIRD I am very happy for DJ, ... As a former teammate and friend, Dennis is a good person and I am sure h...
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