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Olmert may yet survive. Says Avi Dichter, Minister for Internal Security, who is sometimes mentioned as a replacement for Peretz: "Emotions are running high right now. In Israel we have one chief of staff and 1 million unofficial chiefs of staff. Everyone has an opinion." Once Israelis see that the United Nations peacekeeping force can halt the rocket fire from southern Lebanon, says Dichter, tempers will cool. In the rose garden, however, more reservists join the protests every day. They swear they won't leave until Olmert does...
...however, even the mightiest telescopes haven't been able to penetrate into that murky era. "We have a photo album of the universe," says Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, "but it's missing pages--as though you had pictures of a child as an infant and then as a teenager, with nothing in between...
...most--difficult companies out there to forecast," says Bear Stearns analyst Glen Reid. In late May, just as Marvel kicked off what may be the greatest test of its powers yet--a slate of 10 independently financed films--the firm stunned investors and Hollywood alike by announcing that Avi Arad, the man behind the Spider-Man and X-Men film franchises, would leave to start his own production company. Not six weeks later, two more key execs departed unexpectedly--Tim Rothwell and Bruno Maglione, heads of Marvel's licensing and international divisions, respectively, perhaps Marvel's most important priorities...
...while Marvel isn't risking any of its own cash, "there's no question that there would be a perceptual impact on the stock," says Cowen & Co. analyst Lowell Singer. Which is why Marvel left many scratching their heads when it let producer Arad strike off on his own. "Avi's contract was up in November, and Marvel couldn't afford the compensation he can demand," Cuneo explains. "So we thought we'd let him leave on our terms." One being that Arad will be involved in at least the first three Marvel films...
...depth of Hizballah's resistance has seen Israeli leaders scale back their definition of success, from crushing Hizballah as a fighting force to a more limited set of goals. Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter told TIME that Israel now seeks the release of two Israeli soldiers held by Hizballah, the cessation of all attacks on Israel from Lebanon, and the creation of a "fire zone" along the southern Lebanese border. This swath will be taken over, he says, by a brawny multi-national force, and when that happens, Israel will withdraw. "We want combatants who are allowed to open fire...