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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weekdays were back in their home villages last week, visible indication that Hizballah has placed its cadres on standby. "We are ready for another war and it will come," says a local Hizballah unit commander who fought in the 2006 war. On the walls of his sitting room, "martyr" portraits of his fallen comrades are plastered alongside pictures of Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. In another room, a walkie-talkie constantly squawked as Hizballah fighters kept in contact with one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel and Hizballah on High Alert | 2/24/2008 | See Source »

...Workers’ Art Show to be held on the university’s Williamsburg campus both last week and in 2007. The show, which also came to Harvard last Saturday, features performances and monologues by sex workers. “Nichol parades himself as a First Amendment martyr,” Marshall said. “He goes out of his way to find a venue on campus for pimps, prostitutes, and dominatrixes to act out bizarre, grotesque behavior.” “To stop the production because I found it offensive, or unappealing, would have violated...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: William and Mary Ousts President | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

What She Left Behind As a Pakistani Canadian, I read with great interest your coverage of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan [Jan. 14]. While I offer sincere condolences on her untimely and fiery death, I must agree with William Dalrymple that her legacy is "mediocre." Far from being a martyr for freedom and democracy, she chose to live a life of luxury in self-imposed exile - in distant Dubai. Although she was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice, she did little to improve the conditions of the masses, particularly women and the poor. Jalaluddin S. Hussain, Brossard, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...While your article on Bhutto was informative, it was disheartening, cold and disrespectful. Bhutto may have been a woman with a discrediting past, but it's safe to say that she intended to make things right. Calling her a "martyr without a cause" acknowledges only her past indiscretions. It seems that you disregarded what might have been. Ryan Sabean, Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

While your article on Bhutto was informative, it was disheartening, cold and disrespectful. Bhutto may have been a woman with a discrediting past, but it's safe to say that she intended to make things right. Calling her a "martyr without a cause" acknowledges only her past indiscretions. It seems that you disregarded what might have been. Ryan Sabean, TAMPA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What She Left Behind | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

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