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Students at the Law School have also been involved in Docherty’s advocacy, joining her on fact-finding trips to Lebanon and at a first round of treaty talks in Dublin this year...

Author: By William N. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Activists Laud Weapons Treaty | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...indulgent as it sounds. Waltz with Bashir isn't a whimsical WALL-E?style adventure or a cutesy Disney cartoon. Part documentary and part memoir, it details Folman's odyssey to retrieve the lost memories of his youth as a bewildered soldier under fire in Beirut during the 1982 Lebanon war. Through flashbacks, visits to a psychiatrist and stories told by old war buddies, Folman's animated self follows his real-life quest to remember what happened. (See pictures from the best anime movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing it Out: Waltz with Bashir | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

After Folman's memories came back full blast, he delved into other ex-soldiers' experiences of the Lebanon war. For Israelis it was a botched misadventure similar to America's war in Vietnam, and one nobody dared speak about afterwards. Folman posted notices on the Internet, asking veterans to come forward with their stories. He got over a hundred replies, and skillfully weaved into the film his ex-comrades' stories - and their nightmares. Waltz opens with a pack of snarling dogs racing through Tel Aviv's streets to converge outside an apartment belonging to a friend of Folman's. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing it Out: Waltz with Bashir | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...other NATO countries to share the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) burden in Afghanistan, Merkel last week insisted she would not send German troops in the volatile southern region. And Sarkozy has already hinted that his forces are already stretched due to ongoing missions in Chad, Kosovo, Congo and Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Obama Problem: Afghanistan | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...spiritual guidebook written by an “Oriental wise man.” The truth of the matter, though, is that Gibran moved to Boston’s South End at the age of 12, having previously received no formal education in the Lebanon. Though he returned to Beirut for high school, he wrote more prodigiously in English than in Arabic, and “The Prophet” is the child of his efforts. Although his biblical style is anything but innovative and the philosophie de la vie outlined in his sparse verse may seem old-fashioned...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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