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These snipers are the linchpin of Israel's military strategy in the Aqsa intifadeh. After the violent Hasmonean Tunnel riots of September 1996, started when Israel opened a tunnel near the golden Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the army decided to prepare for an even more terrible outbreak. Major General Giora Eiland, head of the army's operations division, was at the heart of this planning. A former commander of the Givati Brigade, Eiland insisted a few years back on buying the M-16A3 for the army, though most other generals didn...
...find that it still had the same curative effect on patients: the water, they discovered, had "memory." In the critically acclaimed English play The Memory of Water, three sisters return home for their mother's funeral only to find that their pasts still permeate their world, even though the linchpin, their mother, is gone. Long buried conflicts rise to the fore as the men in their lives pop in unexpectedly. But far from a somber play about death and mourning, The Memory of Water is a hilarious comedy about sex, drugs and the embarrassing details of a shared past. Winner...
Since his release, Pendergast has become an advocate for the pending legislation that would end legal betting on college sports in Nevada. He has acknowledged his guilt and cooperated with authorities, but he has also singled out Nevada as the linchpin of the scheme. He told lawmakers and others on Capitol Hill in February, "Without Nevada, without the option of betting money in Nevada, the Northwestern basketball point-shaving scandal would not have occurred...
...hype in Warsaw notwithstanding, democracy has never been the linchpin of U.S. foreign policy. During the Cold War, the very term "democratic" was simply a synonym for anticommunist - Suharto, Mobutu, Generals Diem and Pinochet, the medieval Islamists who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and many other dodgy candidates were all in the "democratic" camp, remember. Even since communism's decisive defeat has allowed Washington to abandon such questionable company, it's simply not true to proclaim democracy as the basis for U.S. foreign policy...
Though Brighton Beach is definitely an ensemble show, Eugene's asides are clearly the linchpin holding the plot and the characters together. The cast of seven break into smaller groups for intimate conversations, permutating themselves into complex arrangements so that, by the end of the show, every character has shared something private with every other character. Though certain combinations of actors take longer than others to hit their stride, the relationships created are generally believable. The most central, and most engaging, relationship exists between the two sisters/mothers, played to a wonderful balance of kitsch and sincerity by Scardigli...