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...hottest spots was Checkpoint 7, two rooftop observation posts outside the Marines' eastern flank, which were manned by a total of 19 Marines. So intense was the fire that five members of one squad left their bunkers voluntarily, scampered up two flights of stairs and a metal ladder, to join their firepower to that of five comrades who were already in the rooftop fighting position. That act of gallantry cost them dearly. Three rocket-propelled grenades burst on the sandbags around the position without causing significant damage. But at about 10 p.m., a single 120-mm mortar round crashed through...
...Rifaat is the main guarantor of the regime's strength, he is also a major source of its frailty. He allegedly sits atop a nationwide ladder of corruption, an arrangement by which government officials on the take share payoffs with their immediate superiors. The bucks stop with Rifaat. Such shady enterprises as extorting money from drug traffickers in the Bekaa Valley and running guns throughout the Arab world have reportedly given him a personal fortune of around $100 million...
...chain. In many cases this has given papers the resources necessary to do their job better, but has also reduced the chance for readers to find editorial voices suited to their tastes. In addition, today's young journalists, often moving from city to city to climb the career ladder, tend to lack loyalty and sensitivity to the communities they cover, further aggravating the public's alienation...
...short of justifying its running time or its ambitions, it is still exhilarating for its vigor and craftsmanship. Visual Consultant Ferdinando Scarfiotti has designed the film in a kitsch-glitz riot of evocative colors: gold (for money), white (cocaine), red (blood) and black (death). As Tony vaults up the ladder of excess, his bad taste escalates as well. He trades in his yellow Caddy with the tiger-skin upholstery for a $43,000 gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls...
...needed serious attention and it got it," Saltonstall says, adding, "Where one stands on the parking ladder is a very big status issue for the faculty. In fact, the most difficult part of running the parking department is assigning spaces...