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...Babitsky would certainly not have been surprised by finding himself under arrest by Russian troops. "He's a fiercely driven correspondent willing to take great risks to get a story," says Meier. "As an unflinching witness to war, he had filed some of the hardest-hitting stuff out of Chechnya, which had 'displeased' the Russian authorities, to put it mildly. And when I met with him the night before he left for Grozny, he said he believed there was a special FSB [successor organization to the KGB] team in Ingushetia whose mission was to eliminate...
...Golan Heights, it may have had little incentive to do that," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Hezbollah is raising the temperature because wants to boost its political standing in Lebanon by claiming victory from any Israeli withdrawal, proclaiming itself the first Arab party to have ever driven Israel from Arab territory." There's an element of truth to Hezbollah's claim, in the sense that the steady stream of casualties it has inflicted on Israel over the years has left the Israeli electorate overwhelmingly in favor of withdrawing from Lebanon. But while it would have the guerrillas...
...films' tone varied: they could teach with a smile, a scowl or a sneer. Some had progressive messages, favoring family planning, opposing witch hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
...basis points)--and they fear more increases are on the horizon. Money flows out of stocks when rates rise or seem likely to, and did it ever last week. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 513 points, to 10,738.87, its lowest level since Nov. 11. The tech-driven NASDAQ shed...
...have little incentive to do that," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Hezbollah, though, has its own reasons for raising the temperature. It wants to boost its political standing in Lebanon by claiming victory from any Israeli withdrawal, proclaiming itself the first Arab party to have ever driven Israel from Arab territory...