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Yesterday's run seemed to focus on one important concept that has driven Novey and his challenge: passion. For running, education, and of course, burgers...
...weaken." Dayan's view that Israel's survival depended on crushing any effort by the Palestinians to regain by force of arms that which they'd lost in the war of 1948 shapes the thinking behind the 1956 operations in retaliation for fedayeen raids from Gaza that form the focus of the book - the same logic that was at work in last year's Operation Cast Lead...
Despite his focus on the past, the present invariably comes crashing in. Sacco and his fixers are shot at by an invisible Israeli sniper in a watchtower. They meet a man who pleads with militants not to use his home as a firing position because the result will be the destruction of his house; and they witness a Rafah home demolished by an Israeli bulldozer that "scooped out the earth as if it were ice cream." Back in 1956, the Palestinians saw the faces of the Israeli soldiers bursting into their homes, but today, in Sacco's cartoons - as well...
...Depicting their service became the focus of his productions - and if it tended to accompany the big victories in American history, so much the better for each story's appeal. After Apollo 13 came out in 1995, Hanks pitched From the Earth to the Moon to HBO as a hybrid of nonfiction and entertainment, and the network gave him a green light. A couple of years ago, comedian Conan O'Brien presented Hanks with the perfect spoof gift: a painting of Apollo astronauts landing in Normandy...
Instead, Purcell said, the team aims to focus on effecting change in the short and long term...