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...that fateful day, a routine Israeli military patrol cut through a Shi'a religious procession, rocks flew, and the Israelis fired back. Two Lebanese were killed. The Israelis expected little to come of it, understanding too late just how frustrated the Lebanese Shi'a were - frustrated by their own government, by the Palestinians, by the Americans, by the French, as well as by the invading Israelis. Nabatiyah quickly metastasized into a vicious 17-year guerrilla war. It would turn out to be Hizballah's Boston Tea Party, and led to Israel's first defeat in the field of battle when...
...sweet spot in the last news cycle: media outlets everywhere were looking for something fresh to show and tell their consumers. The Barack Obama salvation show was in hiatus, the Mumbai terror attacks was fading from the front page, the Mideast peace process was stalling (again), the late night comics had run out of jokes about Gov. Rod Blagojevich's hair... and everybody had had quite enough of grim tidings about the economy. For newsrooms, a man throwing shoes at a lame duck American President was like Christmas come early. (See "Aftermath of a Shoe Attack...
...witness very many heartwarming pedagogical triumphs in director Laurent Cantet's The Class, which tracks the activities of Marin, his students, their parents and the other teachers for an academic year, from the first day of school in the fall to the last day in the late spring...
...World oil prices began surging late last year partly because of the soaring demand from China and India's fast-growing economies, leading many to speculate that the world could actually run short of oil. But just as some long-planned new oil projects in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere came on line, those emerging economies began to slow, and the United States - the world's biggest energy consumer - faced its biggest economic crisis in decades. One result has been that Americans are driving less - 100 billion miles fewer in the first 10 months of this year than in the same...
...while the bullets are still flying. It's just too dangerous," says Eladio Cota, a boisterous 32-year-old paramedic. "It's hard, but those are the rules." By the time their ambulance made its way down the bumpy unpaved roads, it was too late. Masked, black-clad police stood somberly next to a line of yellow tape as soldiers pulled up in green humvees, fingers at the triggers of their mounted machine guns. Behind the tape, two twisted bodies sprawled on the dirt street--the latest victims of the drug-related bloodshed that thus far has claimed an unprecedented...