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In recent years, Nasrallah has consolidated Hizballah's ties to its powerful sponsors, Iran and Syria. The group receives as much as $300 million a year from Tehran, and Nasrallah is a confidant of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom he visited on a weekly basis prior to the war. Lebanese...
It’s unfair to say that Masters’ book is flawed because it doesn’t live up to Schlesinger’s—that’s setting the bar far too high. And in the end, Masters is a reporter, not a confidant...
He was born Frank Morrison Spillane, the son of a Brooklyn barkeep. Raised on the wrong (indeed, only) side of the tracks in Ellzabeth, N.J., he wrote for slick magazines, then shifted to comics, composing the two-page prose fillers that were oddly required by law. During the war he...
RETIRED. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, 69, as the Pope's chief spokesman, after more than 20 years as the unflappable public face of the Vatican; in Vatican City. A confidant of John Paul II, the Spanish-born former journalist-the first non-cleric to take the job-modernized the...
The dinner party had gathered last Wednesday evening in a farmhouse in the fertile, fruit-growing countryside just outside Baqubah, 30 miles north of Baghdad. One of the attendees was Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. With him were at least three women and three...