Word: mortars
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...desperately to be a global financial center, but it is hampered by outdated policies. The Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the vested interests that support him believe economic growth requires the constant pouring of concrete. That's so last century. A great city consists of not just bricks and mortar but green lungs and vibrant culture. The expatriates who staff the investment banks and hedge funds in Hong Kong are tempted not just by money but by quality of life. That's why clean, green Singapore is such a constant threat to Hong Kong...
...Haas convincingly evokes the paranoid atmosphere in Iraq, with its confusing web of alliances and grotesque ironies. Particularly successful is the portrait of the Green Zone, even if it is driven home rather more emphatically than necessary: Anna and Dan lounge by the pool at a luxurious club as mortar attacks continue outside, and they make love to the sound of gunfire. At the same time, the film portrays U.S. soldiers with a striking lack of nuance. No explanation surfaces for the drowning at Samarra, and members of the military consistently paint themselves as ignorant thugs, spouting phrases such...
...favorite eateries - okay, that's a stretch to describe a gas canister, a slab of wood, a mortar and pestle and a few plastic bags of veggies and meat hung on an accommodating tree branch - is just outside my office. A man in a straw hat grills chicken, pork and fish marinated in garlic, white pepper and coriander root. His wife pounds green papaya for spicy salads and simmers broth in a battered pot balanced on what looks like a Bunsen burner. My husband and I gorge for $3 - and there's always enough for the street dogs that cozy...
...Inside Dahlan's fortress-like compound in Gaza City, his men were wielding brand-new M-16 rifles and were clearly organizing for future fighting, even as leaders claimed high hopes for the Mecca peace conference. As Dahlan's men pointed out where the mortar and grenade rounds had landed during a recent Hamas attack, they were not in a conciliatory mood...
...details were puzzling. Why would Sunni insurgents, who generally favor stand-off tactics like suicide bombings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs, make a target of themselves by massing hundreds of fighters deep in the Shi'a heartland? Why would Shi'a militias, which thrive on the support of the towns and neighborhoods from which they spring, stake a claim to a patch of farmland outside Najaf...