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...activists begin to fight--probably by shooting at Israeli settlers on isolated West Bank roads. Even if Saddam's media complain that Syria and Jordan won't let his army cross their territory to invade Israel, he is already providing the funding for the manpower necessary to strike a blow...
...suppose if there's one bit of good to come out of this tawdry mess is that it allows Americans to get a glimpse of their representatives. In Washington, Gary Condit is a dime-a-dozen, the blow-dried but not particularly bright Congressman who tends his own constituent garden and doesn't have any real involvement in issues of national importance. Their careers are not about service or ideology but about re-election - that is the star they steer...
First they lost Elian. Now they've lost Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera, too. Monday's decision to move the annual Latin music Grammy awards ceremony from Miami to avoid Cuban-American protests deals a blow to efforts by the organized exile community to soften its image following last year's Elian Gonzalez debacle. And the pain will be deepened by the fact that controversy over how to respond to the event had caused the most dramatic split in decades in the preeminent exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF...
...bare earth floor. Fighters took Shiva and Shakti, the god and goddess of power, as their deities. From unarmed kicks and punches, kalarippayat warriors would graduate to sticks, swords, spears and daggers and study the marmas - the 107 vital spots on the human body where a blow can kill. Training was conducted in secret, the lethal warriors unleashed as a surprise weapon against the enemies of Cheras. Still, Chinese traders learned some of the mysterious body movements and took them home to provide the basis of their own martial arts...
...their bunched shorts. From his corner, Kumar barks a command and one of the men leaps at the other with his spear, its tip tracing the arc of his lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly it's over: the men lay their weapons before Kumar and bow to him, touching the feet of their master...