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...Hizballah fighter, dressed in camouflage trousers, boots and a cream-colored sweater, puts down his AK-47 rifle and stands before his small prayer mat, his head bowed for the early evening ritual. Behind him is a simple one-man hut next to a swing gate. It is the entrance to a sealed-off hillside base, one of many that have sprung up over the last year in the rugged mountains and stony valleys around Rihan, a southern Lebanese village. The entrance to another no-go zone, along a rutted dirt track, is advertised by a sign that reads: WARNING...
...parents had to rescue him. "It means," the priest murmured, "that he is a good, tough lad." That was a necessity for survival in western Siberia during that era of Soviet history. Yeltsin recalled that during the bitterly cold winters he and his family in their communal hut used a goat to keep warm. "The six of us slept together around her on the floor," he wrote. Another of his early memories was the arrest of his father and uncle on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation" during a wave of Stalinist terror in 1934. The experience - the men spent three...
...Shaun walks to the local convenience store and back home again while managing to ignore the increasing evidence of zombie activity. But that genre demanded longer takes and a slower pulse; zombies are no sprinters. The new film has to be zazzier, even when nothing much is going on. Hut Fuzz gets many of its laughs the laying on of a Joel Silver hyped-up editing tempo and a macho drum-machine soundtrack to punctuate the interrogation of underage tipplers and the issuing of parking tickets...
...capitals of Anuradhapura, founded in the 4th century B.C., and 900-year-old Polonnaruwa are a shortish drive away, and so are the cave temples at Dambulla, which date from the 1st century B.C. They're so amazing - and so amazingly well preserved - that you could stay in a hut and be happy. But how much better to return, after a hard day communing with history, to a fabulous Ayurvedic massage, a herbal bath infused with petals, a delicious meal - and the sight of a peacock dancing, alone, in the dusk. www.viluyana.com
...Pizza Hut-sponsored program that rewards reading with free slices of pizza for students in kindergarten through sixth grade has recently been the target of criticism from a Harvard Medical School (HMS) instructor. Susan E. Linn, the associate director of the Media Center at the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an instructor in Psychiatry at HMS, criticized the fast-food giant last week, charging that its reading program amounted to corporate sponsorship and encouraged unhealthy eating habits. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood–an organization that Linn co-founded—has begun...