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Palestinian politics has ossified in the meantime, leaving most Palestinians cynical about their leadership and pessimistic about the chances of any kind of internal reconciliation, let alone progress towards statehood.

Sheinbaum and her allies call the shake-up a necessary makeover of an ossified system riven with corruption and nepotism.

The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.

Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.

“It’s an ossified bastion of stodgy old engineers,” he said.