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Currier House Committee Chair Marc D. Manara ’04 said his favorite memories of William Graham were at House-wide events, such as masters’ open houses, when Graham would traditionally deliver brief remarks—a reminder to students, Manara said, “that he does enjoy our company and that he really is concerned about...
...involved with every aspect of the House, and as students we can tell that he enjoys this involvement and that he really cares about us,” Currier House Committee Chair Marc Manara ’04 wrote in an e-mail. “He has a characteristic warmth about him that comes across in all his interactions with students...
...minutes' walk from the Beirut barracks near the airport where a suicide bomber killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983. Children of Hizballah martyrs make up a quarter of the 1,000 students there, who are drilled in daily English classes. Another symbol of the new Hizballah is its al-Manara (Lighthouse) TV, which broadcasts news, soap operas, kiddie programs and with-the-guerrillas footage of attacks on Israeli fortifications in southern Lebanon. The station--managed by close-shorn Islamic revolutionaries--recently climbed to No. 3 in overall viewership in Lebanon, a sign that the group is as intent on fighting...
...Syrian forces from the country. Waves of Israeli F-16s and F-4 Phantom jets screamed in over Palestinian-and Muslim-controlled West Beirut, dropping bombs. Israeli warships bombarded the city's coastline all the way from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers and pockmarked buildings in the besieged city, some 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas led by Yasser Arafat fought back with sporadic rounds of artillery and antiaircraft fire...
...fathers were killed by a Katyusha rocket in 1978 as they walked past a wall in the Manara kibbutz. There is a hole in the wall, like a bite mark, where they were hit. It is the only sign of destruction in Manara, where everything else seems to flourish. Red flowers glow in dark green bushes. Babies in colorful sun hats waddle in the playground where the cab of an old truck has been painted yellow and pink and made into a toy. The older children use the pool. From the water they may look down into a valley full...