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...group's estimated 1,000 to 4,000 active fighters have managed to inflict surprising casualties on Israeli forces in Lebanon and to keep firing hundreds of rockets on civilian targets as far as 30 miles into Israel. Along the Lebanese border, as Israeli intelligence drones the size of model airplanes whined overhead, an Israeli army major sent to reassess tactics was grimly impressed. "Nobody here looks down on Hizballah," he says. "This is their home, they're the defenders, and they've probably booby-trapped every house...
...region, heard whenever cell phones go off in cabs and cafes from Cairo to Damascus. But the real sensation is Yusuf's slickly produced, MTV-style music videos, which consistently register as the top most-requested on Middle Eastern music TV channels. The videos depict the singer as a model Muslim citizen who visits the mosque, tends to his aging parents, interacts comfortably with his British colleagues at a fictional London office, and still manages to come across as cool...
Investors also like the industry's new Establishment cred. The old model of buying an overstaffed, underleveraged company, stripping it of cash and slashing jobs and expenses simply doesn't work as well now that corporate America has learned to downsize itself. Competition from abroad keeps companies on their toes just as well as the threat of a hostile takeover ever did. "The heart and soul has become real business building," says Marc Lipschultz, a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
Which brings us to Barack Obama. Last week, the senator gave a heavily-lauded speech, proclaiming that Democrats must be less suspicious of religion and that some breaches of the wall between church and state were permissible ("Context matters".) As political antidote, it makes sense; but as a political model, it is fraught with danger...
...Essentially what they do is take the footage they watch, write outlines and treatments and put together a script that has primary and secondary characters," says Writer's Guild spokesman Gabriel Scott. "They build the narrative out of hundreds of hours of raw footage. America's Next Top Model is the highest-rated reality show and the flagship program for a new network. And here the writers don' t get the benefits that the editors and Tyra Banks get." Guild officials point out that reality writers don't accrue the portable pension and other benefits that a writer of West...