Word: aley
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...potential trouble. Jaafar was killed two days earlier - wounded by a sniper and executed with a bullet in the head, according to residents -during heavy clashes between Hizballah and the Druze followers of Walid Jumblatt, an arch-critic of the Shi'ite party, in the hills of the Aley district above Beirut. Because of the tensions, there must be no shooting in the air during the funeral procession, a Hizballah organizer instructs the mourners. "Save your bullets for the Israelis and the traitors," he adds, referring the supporters of the Western-backed government...
...Charles River regulars share such adulation for the poetry. “It’s kind of mixed feelings,” says Doug Aley, Harvard Business School ’05, describing his reaction. “On the one hand I like just the plain river and the grass out there, but on the other hand it’s nice to see some art out there...