Word: arms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trying. Although Bush entered office with a lot of humble talk about reaching across party lines and building bipartisan compromises on legislation, in practice he's mostly hewed to the role of high bidder, setting out exactly what he wants - usually, what he promised pre-November - and twisting every arm he can find until he gets...
Robert Levin ’68 served as a last minute replacement for pianist Alfred Brendel with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) this weekend after Brendel was rendered unable to perform due to an arm injury...
Brendel, 70, one of the world’s foremost Beethoven specialists, was in town for six concerts with the BSO and conductor Seiji Ozawa, featuring all five Beethoven piano concertos. After feeling pain in his arm, he cancelled the concerts scheduled for Saturday and last night and flew back to Munich to meet with his physician...
...will be a handshake to strike fear in the hearts of Israelis. The roving power broker of Hamas, 52, and the fiery 41-year-old cleric who leads Hezbollah will be signaling a truce in what has been a violent if largely unheralded struggle to be the leading terror arm of the Palestinian uprising. The two were once allies. But earlier this year, Hezbollah decided it wanted to go its own way. Suddenly two of the most efficient and dangerous terror groups in the world were in competition with each other. It was as if two units of the same...
...sources in both organizations tell TIME, Hezbollah's backers in the Iranian government have called them together to patch up their dispute and focus them on the jihad against the Jewish state. The Iranians, who have kept Hamas at arm's length until now, hope that by bringing the two together again, they can pool their operations and exert even more deadly pressure on Israel. If the Iranians get their way, it will be a dark day both for Israelis - who will face increasingly professional terrorist attacks - and for Palestinians already suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash. Competition between...