Word: commandered
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...does face, however, the challenge of convincing the American people that she—a woman!—deserves to return to the White House, this time at its helm. Over the past two months here in Washington, I have seen her enrapture an audience of evangelicals, command a meeting of the NAACP, and passionately testify before a commission on Hurricane Katrina in a church basement. And though at times she struggles—she still inflects awkwardly when delivering punch-lines and her laugh sometimes seems forced—the mix of her striking intelligence, her newfound confidence...
...drunkenly clutched at my hand before handing out his business card (lucky me), and then attempted to charge into my hotel room after me. Fortunately, I snappily closed the door. Another, after failing to gain entrance by continually knocking on the door, settled down to wait outside. Neither my command for him to “go away” nor a threat to “smash his [expletive] face in” persuaded him that I did not want to “be his friend.” It ended only when I emerged, armed (rationally) with...
...According to an Israeli senior military officer, both the Air Force and the Northern Command of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are trying to heap the blame on each other, principally because of a dispute over the accuracy of the data that led to the missile attack. This source says that an army spotter saw Hizballah firing from an area near the U.N. building but locked into the U.N. building by mistake. He then passed the precise coordinates on to the air force control, who relayed the target site to one of the fighter planes circling overhead. But the Northern...
...many more of the several thousand reserves from around the country ready to fight. A military source in Lebanon told TIME that the fighters are apparently communicating via encrypted short-burst-transmission sets to overcome Israeli jamming and eavesdropping capabilities, enabling Hizballah to maintain an effective chain of command. In the Dahiya, the Shi'ite suburbs of Beirut, Hizballah gunmen wearing vests jammed with ammunition patrol the streets. When not engaged in conflict, they assist some of the 500,000 refugees in Lebanon displaced by the fighting and Israel's bombs...
...people in the 2004 tsunami, has worked hard to improve local warnings, erecting 62 sirens on towers along beaches in six provinces, each capable of alerting people as far as 2 km inland. Those alerts are issued by the government's National Disaster Warning Center, the first such command post opened in the region after the 2004 tsunami. Sri Lanka, too, has earned plaudits for coordinating with UNESCO's regional efforts, and developing a strong system for disseminating warnings from the capital, utilizing churches and temples to help sound the alarm...