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Among the brawniest is Abu Samhadana, whose shifting network of allegiances illustrates the difficulties Abbas faces in trying to restore order. During the intifadeh, the Salah ed-Din Brigades gained the respect of Gazans by confronting Israeli soldiers when the official Palestinian military fled. But the group ran its refugee camps, towns and villages as gangster fiefs. With the Israelis gone, locals say it has increasingly turned to racketeering and extortion. Despite Abbas' ban on the public display of weapons, members of the gang can still be seen on Gaza's streets, openly toting their...
Part of the high-IQ fun of Minority Report--Spielberg's sharpest, brawniest, most bustling entertainment since Raiders of the Lost Ark and the finest of the season's action epics--is its mix of future and retro. Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow), who might be a more benign John Ashcroft, and his protege John Anderton (Tom Cruise) run a system that prevents murders by arresting people before they commit them. Yet the Precrime apparatus is so goofily anach-ronistic--three young mind readers floating in a tank and billiard balls rolling through plastic tubes--that your brilliant...
R.E.M.'s new CD, Monster, out next week, does indeed blast with the boldest, brawniest music the band has ever recorded. In an interview with Time, Stipe described the new sound succinctly: "We wanted noise." Added R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills: "When you're in a band long enough, you want to try different things. On past albums we had been exploring acoustic instruments, trying to use the piano and mandolin, and we did it about all we wanted to do it. And you come back to the fact that playing loud electric-guitar music is about as fun as music...
...conventional wisdom, the two don't even overlap: Harvard is for the best and the brightest, 'Bama for the biggest and the brawniest. Cambridge has a Nobel prize-laden faculty, Tuscaloosa has the legacy of its great football coach, Paul "the Bear" Bryant...
Callused hands gripped tiny U.S. flags. Weathered faces shone with sweat under the midday sun. For three hours, 100,000 members of New York's brawniest unions marched and shouted, milled and sang in a massive display of gleeful patriotism and muscular pride. Basking in the ticker-tape approval of cheering office workers crowding high windows in buildings many of DAVID BURNETT them had helped erect beam by beam and load by load, the hardhatted construction workers, teamsters and longshoremen rallied through the streets of Lower Manhattan in probably the biggest pro-Government rally since the Viet...