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...Damascus has created dilemmas for Hizballah. The group fears that the anti-Syrian protests may accelerate demands that Hizballah disband its military wing, in accord with U.N. Resolution 1559. A Syrian pullout would deprive Hizballah of a powerful ally on the ground and could choke off the Syrian channel for military supplies from Iran, Hizballah's main sponsor. Nasrallah is concerned that Lebanon will move into the U.S. orbit and face pressure to sign a peace treaty with Israel. While Nasrallah lauded Syria, he was careful to hold the demonstration under the colors of Lebanon's national flag...
...same time, Nasrallah has boosted Hizballah's campaign against Israel, promoting suicide bombings and other violent attacks over Hizballah's Manar satellite channel and sending Hizballah's guerrillas to smuggle arms into the West Bank. Such meddling infuriates Hizballah's critics in Washington, who have pushed the Bush Administration to disarm Hizballah, through either military strikes or U.N. sanctions. But last week Administration officials abstained from denouncing Hizballah and suggested the group should be encouraged to complete its transformation into a political party. "Let's see what the Lebanese people want to be when they grow up," says a veteran...
Inside Deep Throat is not the documentary stuff of your father’s History Channel. It’s not quite Discovery Channel fare, either, though some scenes on the finer points of procreation and the location of genitalia might lead you to believe otherwise...
With The Blanks, Long has been able to channel Beck’s performance magic into his life at Harvard. But the final product is a reflection of the group’s personal dynamic...
...Chidambaram's budget is one of the more salient proofs that the new government has remembered its origins. The budget, which increases spending on a range of antipoverty measures, is easily the most ambitious effort to channel India's robust economic growth into solving its most enduring problem. "Given the resilience of the Indian economy," the Finance Minister said in his speech to India's Parliament, "it is possible to ... launch a direct assault on poverty and unemployment." He then earmarked $5.7 billion for a series of programs aimed at bolstering education, infrastructure, housing, nutrition and health care, especially...