Word: mortaring
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...anywhere they choose, anytime they please. (And Fassie's Stateside appeal is recognized by some: Banana Republic plays her song Vuli Ndlela in its stores.) Conflicted about the ethics of unauthorized file sharing? Online music stores--which tend to have wider and more eclectic inventories than their bricks-and-mortar counterparts--allow fans to buy hard-to-find CDs (like, say, the excellent compilation Zimbabwe Frontline 3: Roots Rock Guitar Party) quickly and conveniently, albeit sometimes expensively...
...fast becoming the Jewish state's security nightmare. The recent images tell the story: Palestinian guerrillas infiltrating a military outpost in Gaza and killing three soldiers. Israel responding with air power and tank artillery, then assassinating a key radical Palestinian leader a day later. Intense Palestinian small arms and mortar fire across a wide front, and then Israel sending in armored columns to quell that fire...
...that saw a number of shooting incidents in the West Bank and Gaza, Israel also tightened its blockade of Palestinian territories in what it called a preemptive action against terror attacks. The latest Israeli actions follow two attempted bombing attacks in Jerusalem as well as a mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza. And Sunday's clashes at Jerusalem's holy sites - Israeli police entered the Muslim compound atop the Temple Mount after Palestinian youths threw stones down on Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza below, at the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple - have added gasoline...
Only about 1 in 7 U.S. households has ever tried some form of electronic banking. And of those willing to venture into e-territory, 96% are logging on to the Web version of a bricks-and-mortar institution, according to Gomez Advisors. The remaining 4%, roughly 800,000 strong, live by their ATM cards and are tired of paying for the privilege of maintaining a checking account. Sign-up incentives, like $50 cash, also help...
...latest exchanges come on top of two attempted bombings in Jerusalem and a mortar attack on Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom in Gaza. But in the realm of perceptions, no event in recent months carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque compound atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the Israelis, it was a simple case of sending police up to the Mosque compound to stop stones being rained down onto Jewish worshippers gathered on the plaza in front of the Western Wall of Judaism's holiest temple. Palestinians - and the wider Arab...