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...normal times, the hills of northern Galilee fill with tourists, some of them pilgrims seeking out the places where Jesus walked 2,000 years ago. Today those hills are burning. It is in Galilee that the rockets fired by Hizballah militants in Lebanon typically fall, occasionally scoring a direct hit on someone vulnerable, more often forcing inhabitants to move into bomb shelters. In the escarpment hamlet of Shomera, Israelis like Gabriel Peretz, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast, can do little more than brace for the next attack. "The situation is very bad," he says, his sentences punctuated...
...told my kids, but it was the most elaborate of the group and had a certain magic to it. It had a kind of inexplicable magnetism about it that made it want to be bigger. We kept talking about it and I told it again, which is not a normal thing, so it stood out as an anomaly. I had really been dancing around with making up my own mythology. I?ve been reading Tolkien and J. K. Rowling and Roald Dahl, because the kids are at that age, almost...
...normal life, I like humor a lot. If you and I were out drinking, we?d be laughing it up. But I can?t do that alone. I have to have some metaphor, some meaning, some moment where I can be all my colors. I need to find pathos and drama. I like comedy as relief, but if you just throw me on the ground and see what I look like, I?m suspense...
...Senator and seven per Representative puts about 4,500 interns on Capitol Hill. In monetary terms, this is a staggering indicator of our democracy’s health. I work around 40 hours per week gratis, and will be here for eight weeks. At $15 per hour, a normal summer wage at home or around Harvard, my time is worth $4,800. Throw in $2,400 for Georgetown housing (I’d live for free at home), and my contribution shoots up to $7,200. Multiply that by the 4,500 interns on Capitol Hill, and you?...
...Under normal circumstances - if such a thing can be said to exist in this conflict - such denunciations of an Israeli attack would have flowed from around the world. But Hizballah moved that story away from the headlines and instead drew the brunt of international criticism, most vocally from western governments and the U.N.; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Paris for talks on Iran, issued a statement calling on Syria to use its influence to help resolve the incident peacefully...