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...lockbox and pulls out $12,000 in U.S. $100 bills. He presses the money into Hodroj's palm. It's meant to pay for a year's rent and furniture while Hizballah builds him a new home. Hodroj doesn't bother to count the inch-thick wad of cash, equal to more than twice the average Lebanese annual income. Score one for the militants. "We're with Hizballah all the way," Hodroj says, stuffing the cash into his pockets...
...horror of Charles' leg did seem most unfair of all. Most of us think of fairness as a kind of symmetry; equal treatment on both sides of the line. But is there really any symmetry between my world and his? Would one of my surgical tools, or a shackle from my sailboat be for Charles what that the Leatherman is for me? Would he value a souvenir from my life...
...platitude. Len turned it into a masterclass, and we were his students. His professional face was that of the wine man, and according to those equipped to judge, he had few rivals in the world for depth of knowledge. Fewer still could match his palate; none could equal his contribution to Australia's wine industry. But to celebrate that expertise alone is to limit him. To my eye, his greatest love was people. His adored wife Trish, his children and grandchildren came first, without question, but I know of no one who took more energetic pleasure in friends and strangers...
...clear plastic bag. The British Home Secretary, John Reid, urged other European countries at a meeting in London Wednesday to work together to coordinate tighter security. "It's very important that the measures that are taken in one country are reflected in other countries because we want equal security for all our countries," Reid said...
...sense of dread can be attributed in equal parts to the identities of the suspects (24 men and women believed to have been born in Britain, one of whom has already been released without charge), to the supposed imminence of the attacks and to their purported targets: more planes falling out of the sky. But our collective shudder is by now practically instinctive. Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have conditioned ourselves to spike every triumph in the struggle against terrorism with a shot of anxiety. Try as we might to secure the perimeter, we walk in the shadow of risk...