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...foot of his garden, white pickets mark the Lebanese border. The plain stretches from there to the dusty heights of Syria, where Israeli jets last week struck a training camp of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. At the other edge of the fruit field on Monday, a sniper hid in the Lebanese village of Kafr Kileh, which abuts the border fence, and shot dead an Israeli soldier in revenge for the air raid. "It's a new era of terror," says Melzer, a lawyer in this northernmost Israeli town. "It's the most unpredictable time we've ever known." Israel leapt...
Corey G. Mazza ’07 thought his secret was safe. He hid it well enough, the revealing photographs safely tucked away from the prying eyes of his new college classmates inside the Athlon Sports College Football Preview. Soon enough, however, Mazza’s new Varsity Football teammates would come to find out what Mazza had planned for no one at Harvard to know. Mazza, a wide receiver from Thousand Oaks, Calif., who lives in Canaday and may concentrate in Economics, is also a male model. As his teammates found out when they flipped open the football magazine...
...days, 11 Democrats from the Texas senate hid out in New Mexico, blocking the quorum needed to pass a redistricting plan favoring Republicans. Then JOHN WHITMIRE--known as "Boogie" since his partying days--broke ranks, enraging his posse. He plans to show up--thus ensuring a vote can take place--when Governor Rick Perry calls a third special session on redistricting...
...power by U.S. and coalition forces in 2001, have regrouped, attacked remote government outposts, held positions for a few days--and then, usually, vanished at the first whup-whup of approaching U.S. Blackhawk helicopters. Not last week. After ambushing a small garrison in Zabul province, several hundred Taliban fighters hid in a needle-thin gorge known as Moray Pass, waiting to attack U.S. troops and their Afghan allies. Shielded by overhanging rock, the Taliban were protected from U.S. bombers and helicopters, and fighting raged for several days. Local villagers reported seeing Taliban fighters scrambling up the hillside carrying their dead...
Spin-off industries are also blossoming, such as Liza Elliott-Ramirez's Expecting Models, founded in July 2001. "When I started modeling 20 years ago, pregnancy was something you hid," she says. "But when I was pregnant [in 2000], I never worked so much." Business has quadrupled since the agency opened, and some of the 100 pregnant models on Elliott-Ramirez's books command as much as $10,000 a day. "It's a huge and booming market," she says. "There are new vendors every day, as they realize pregnant women are consumers who want to look good...