Word: forts
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...nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple, whitewashed house...
...confusion, unlike the Bose and the Klipsch, the Hi-Fi can run on six D-cell batteries. In what locations without a power plug would a 14.5-lb. sound system come in handy? Up in a tree fort, perhaps? Surely even Bart Simpson would rig up an extension cord...
...Cleef is the craftsmanship?the seemingly invisible settings, and the sway and movement in the designs. Today the pieces are created as intricately as they were when the house, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, opened. All the high jewelry pieces are still made in Fort Knox--like ateliers above the Place Vendôme shop. Of course, getting into those ateliers is still a rare privilege reserved for clients who are willing and able to pay the price for made-to-order pieces?a trend that, according to president Stanislas de Quercize, has been on the rise...
...made regalia and a dream catcher, to share their individual tribe’s tradition and history. “There’s a general misconception of a pan-native American identity,” said April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, a native of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe in Montana. “But there’s a great deal of diversity among us.” Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06, a native Taino from New York who posed with a fistful of feathers to audience laughter, said he identifies more...
...riskier foreign trips, the President was probably unaware he was skirting not two conflict zones - Afghanistan and Pakistan - but three. In India, Bush toured the southern city of Hyderabad to praise an example of everything that's right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what's still wrong with India. In the last few years, thousands of impoverished farmers have committed suicide in the barren, drought-stricken land outside the metropolis. For some, despair has turned to anger...