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...sweet and cunning and ancient and beautiful as the world. It was literate, rich, fabulous, chic as Atlantis in better days. No land was ever luckier, more cosmopolitan. If you drove in from the east, out of the deserts of Jordan, Iraq or Syria, Lebanon was the coolest, greenest, richest land in the imagination of Allah. You climbed the Lebanon Mountains, and suddenly beheld the Mediterranean. Its deep blue waters played in the eye against the snow on the tops of the mountains. The air was dense with the scent of thyme and cedar...
...each day to strike at Somali forces hundreds of miles away. As they roar down the runway, mules pulling carts plod past the barbed-wire boundaries of the tarmac, carrying jugs of water. The combatants themselves are hardly better off. There are indications on both sides that the greenest troops are pushed into the front lines. One captured Somali who said he was 13 years old was shown off by the Ethiopians in Harar. The youth claimed he had been forced into the army, given two months' training and sent to the front...
...family Chevrolet. Stember has spent years retracing the course of the war, and he writes about it briskly and sparely, alternating discussions of tactics with directions to the battle sites, brief accounts of what happened there two centuries ago with what each place looks like today. In greenest Vermont. Stember will, for example, send the tourist past a white farmhouse down a rutted dirt road and bring him to a desolate cove on Lake Champlain that has changed little since. Benedict Arnold, then a hero still, burned his ships there after holding back the British fleet in the fall...
...grown into a yearning for shaggy acres and a pileated woodpecker of one's own. People may even be having hallucinations about the wilds. In his latest collection of essays, Edward Hoagland, a Harvard graduate who has spent a lot of time in some of the remotest, greenest places in North America, writes that men still claim to have sightings of the mountain lion, or puma, a species just this side of extinction. Hoagland thinks he saw one in the Alberta Rockies. Whether he did or not, the truth is that the puma is still something...
...that, the Sergeant Major of the Army remains essentially the non-com's noncom, still owes a salute to even the greenest West Point graduate. "They're officers, and they run the Army," he says crisply. "I feel very strongly about that...