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...than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian. The judges agree. Their verdict on Nadia Comaneci, 14, of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romania: she is perfect...
...still wears horn-rims. He asks several times if he's being interesting. He can't resist throwing out weird little factoids that have adhered to his sticky, hyper-retentive mind (according to Franzen, 43% of Subaru owners are Republicans; every person in the continental U.S. lives within one mile of an owl; scrub jays kill an estimated 100 million songbirds a year in California alone). And writing is still a struggle. He works in a darkened room, with earplugs, noise-canceling headphones and something called pink noise (it's like white noise but with more bass) playing...
...seems extraordinary how the Hizballah men could have repulsed the Israeli attack, especially as the village lies less than a mile from the border. Perhaps the difference lay in experience - the Hizballah men lolling around the village were in the late 20s to mid-30s, at least a decade older than most of the Israeli troops they were fighting. All of them would have been combat veterans of the 1990s, when Hizballah fought a resistance campaign against the Israeli army occupying south Lebanon. Perhaps most of all, they relied heavily on their Islamic faith, accepting the will...
...Although the Israelis had departed Aitta Shaab, they are still present on Lebanese soil, mainly in apparently isolated patches of high ground no more than three or four miles from the border. The road leading from the north into Bint Jbeil, the largest Shi'ite town in the border district, passes through the Israeli army's area of operations. But there is no sense of cutting through Israel's front line. Indeed, there is no meaningful front line between Israeli forces and Hizballah fighters. A mile southeast of Beit Yahoun, a village straddling a ridge two miles north of Bint...
...council voted unanimously late last week for a 15,000-strong international force to help the same number of Lebanese troops keep a 12-mile buffer zone free of "any armed personnel," whether Hizballah or Israeli. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he would work over the weekend to determine the exact date and time Israeli troops will move out as the Lebanese move...