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...power of his imagery, made him ripe for satire. Sid Caesar played a Hammer character on Your Show of Shows. Al Feldstein led off the first issue of Panic, the sibling of Mad comic book, with a story called "Me, the Verdict," an acute burlesque of Spillane tropes. The highest compliment was paid by Fred Astaire, who in 1953's The Band Wagon devoted an entire ballet, called "The Girl Hunt," to the Hammer mystique. (A decade later, Spillane tipped his fedora to Astaire by titling a Hammer novel The Girl Hunters...
...What is known about Hizballah is that it has been supplied with about 13,000 Kaytusha rockets by Iran and Syria; Israel even knows the location of some of its weapons storage facilities. But the longer-range arsenal is still a matter of much speculation, even at the highest levels of government and the military. In recent government hearings, military intelligence official Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz said Hizballah had some 100 rockets that could travel between 24 and 42 miles, presumably referring to Iranian Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles. Another senior intelligence official tells TIME that Hizballah "probably...
While the match did not exhibit the sport at its highest levels, Michael M. Libert ’09—a current member of the Harvard tennis team—said there were still plenty of reasons to attend...
...Beirutis are once again stocking up on supplies and buying generators in case the Israelis knock out the city's electricity. The country can ill afford this kind of economic disruption. Reconstruction put Lebanon deeply in hock: it has one of the highest per capita public debts in the world. If the lights go out in Beirut's nightclubs, the post-war party will clearly be over...
...debate was a win for Lamont in that he wasn't embarrassed by Lieberman, which seemed a possibility going in, since Lamont's highest elective office was serving as a city councilman more than a decade ago, while Lieberman has been in the Senate for 18 years and has run for both President and Vice President. The outcome of the race is likely to rest on two factors. One is which candidate can best find and turn out his supporters for a primary in August, when many voters may be on vacation or not paying attention. And the other will...