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Sanchez was a familiar, if unwelcome, foe. Suchde had played him twice during the regular season, losing both times. However, on both of those occasions, Sanchez had faced a player with an ankle injury that greatly affected his speed and mobility, leaving him a mere shadow of his customary dominating self...
...They have proved a tenacious foe. In Sunday's street battles, several of the well-armed militants holed up in residential buildings in the Zaharieh district of central Tripoli firing machine guns and hurling grenades at Lebanese soldiers who sought cover behind armored personnel carriers on the street below. Soldiers battered the cramped apartment buildings with rifle and heavy machine gun fire, ripping chunks of masonry from the walls and filling the air with dust and acrid gun smoke. It was not until early evening that the army managed to kill the last of the militants...
...decades that followed, abortion and homosexuality remained his central targets. Though he folded the Moral Majority in 1989, he remained an outspoken foe of all those whom he believed would undermine the sanctity of life and traditional marriage - including, most notoriously, the purple-purse-carrying Teletubby Tinky Winky, whom he accused of corrupting children...
...Dari's change of heart on al-Qaeda is not necessarily good news for the Bush Administration. The Sunni cleric remains an implacable foe of the U.S. occupation, and of the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He is dismissive of the "surge" in Baghdad, insisting that no solution to Iraq's problems is possible while American troops remain - and rejects as "insincere and meaningless" al-Maliki's efforts to reach out to the Sunnis...
...into party fund raising. Brown won't officially start as Prime Minister until after the conclusion of a seven-week leadership contest. It should be a formality, given the absence of credible opponents, but champagne corks aren't yet popping to welcome his ascent to power. Everyone, fan and foe alike, acknowledges that Brown is a political giant, but still they wonder - is he big enough, or amiable enough...