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...carpenter labors in the sweltering noon heat to complete his melancholy task, his newly made coffins lie stacked up six high and stretch down the hospital courtyard. The simple pine coffins have been hammered together to receive the bodies of 86 people killed in eight days of Israeli air strikes and artillery bombardments that are part of its campaign against Hizballah. "I built 20 last night and another 10 this morning," says Fadi Salem, pausing a moment from his backbreaking work...
...southern hinterland beyond Tyre has become a killing zone. Here the dead lie under the rubble of houses destroyed in air strikes and the wounded die in the streets for lack of medical attention. Almost all the roads that criss-cross the hills and valleys of the south have been heavily cratered from multiple air strikes, making them impassable. Even United Nations peacekeepers with their armored personnel carriers have abandoned the effort to resupply or evacuate residents of southern villages because of the conditions of the roads and the Israeli shelling and air strikes. "We are in close contact with...
...clothing has been inching up after months of deep discounting. "I wouldn't expect a lot of relief on gasoline prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. In addition to geopolitical tension, the hurricane season and its potential to disrupt refineries on the Gulf of Mexico lie ahead. And as we grudgingly get used to $3-per-gal. gasoline--it's been nearly two years since crude oil broke $50 a barrel--companies feel more comfortable passing along their own higher costs to customers...
LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...
...Jackie Chan's co-star in Shanghai Noon and Knights , and he was excellent in The Wedding Crashers last year, where he energetically overcame his basic inertia, in part because the script was well developed nonsense and his constantly scheming co-star, Vince Vaughn, wouldn't let him lie down for long...