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...work." Even so, U.S. officials still hope the foreign presence could strengthen the political forces inside Lebanon--Christian, Druze, Sunni and others--that resent political domination by Hizballah's private army, perhaps to the point that Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government would finally move against it. But Aaron Miller, a former top U.S. Middle East negotiator, says Lebanon's political fragility means that a serious try at bringing Hizballah under government control "can't be done without triggering civil...
...definition but also to the arms, money and backing it gets from Syria and Iran and the support it gets inside Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab world. "There's not enough money in the world for them to disarm, because it means giving up their major philosophy," says Miller. As part of efforts to normalize Lebanon earlier this year, Hizballah was engaging in a national dialogue with other parties in which it listened sympathetically to entreaties to forget fighting and concentrate exclusively on politics for the good of the country--at the same time it was stockpiling missiles...
...prepared with indifference. My bison sirloin was so tough and flavorless that I couldn't finish it; the fries tasted of old grease. And apart from the two deer heads on the wall, virtually every other decoration at Frontier Fort was supplied by national beer companies; the clockface read "Miller Lite, A True Pilsner Beer." The undersalted cole slaw was delivered in a plastic Dixie cup; the Heinz 57 bottle had old congealed sauce around...
...struggle could well determine how kindly history treats Olmert. He has taken Israel into an unplanned war, and there is always the risk his venture could fail. "For Olmert to sustain the trust the Israeli public has in him, he is going to have to produce," says Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington who has advised six U.S. Secretaries of State. "It reminds me of the guy jumping out of a 15th-floor window, and at the 8th floor someone asks, 'How are you doing?,' and the guy says, 'So far, so good...
...cavalier hero ("I don't give a hoot about ... reviews. What I want to read are royalty checks," he liked to say) but revealed a softer, subtler side in the '70s and '80s, writing two well-received children's books and parodying his macho image in TV ads for Miller Lite beer...