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...Hizballah fighter, dressed in camouflage trousers, boots and a cream-colored sweater, puts down his AK-47 rifle and stands before his small prayer mat, his head bowed for the early evening ritual. Behind him is a simple one-man hut next to a swing gate. It is the entrance to a sealed-off hillside base, one of many that have sprung up over the last year in the rugged mountains and stony valleys around Rihan, a southern Lebanese village. The entrance to another no-go zone, along a rutted dirt track, is advertised by a sign that reads: WARNING...
...from Mass. Hall on Monday evening in her first public appearance since taking office. Faust paused in the doorway, briefly dancing along to the music, before continuing on to greet a small audience of Harvard affiliates who had gathered in Harvard Yard to chat with the president over ice cream...
...Monday morning, Harvard affiliates awoke to a surprise e-mail invitation to the ice cream social. The event drew a diverse crowd including students from the Summer School and Extension School, several undergraduates, Cambridge residents, and tourists, lured by both the buckets of Klondike bars and Italian ices and the chance to snap a picture with the new president...
...when they do, they invariably add ever pricier accouterments. The company says customers change their orders more than 1 million times a year. BMW doesn't break out details of the additional revenue, but given the profit margins on many add-ons, "it's like a big dollop of cream on the cake," says Peter Schmidt, a British-based auto-industry consultant...
...aspire to marry for love, even if that meant crossing the sectarian divide. Among the educated classes, Shi'ite-Sunni unions were not frowned upon. It was even possible to date: in Baghdad, courting couples, often accompanied by a chaperone, would meet at fruit-juice kiosks or ice-cream parlors or in one of the restaurants along the banks of the Tigris. Premarital sex was rare, but the more adventurous lovers would arrange trysts in the city's quiet nooks. One popular spot was a concrete expanse near the Jadhariya bridge sometimes used by driving instructors; there, under the pretense...