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...General Sultan says the attack was necessary to prepare the ground for fruitful peace talks. "Some of these militants are a hard nut to crack," he says. "They may not come easily to negotiation. We need to show them what is at risk." The agreement in North Waziristan, he points out, was also preceded by several months of military activity - in which the Pakistani military lost some 800 men, about the same number of militants it was able to capture during the operation. But few outside of Pakistan have hailed the Waziristan deal as a success. NATO leaders in Afghanistan...
...best. “You look at the sport...it’s the same thing over and over again,” said Oli Rosenbladt, the women’s coach at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass. “You have to be a bit of a nut to get into...
...Hannah Age: 11 "I'm not sure it would really encourage me to tidy my room." Hannah isn't buying the parental propaganda of Tidy Up Tidy Up, although she finds the Kooks' The King & I "O.K., a good tune." Our most mature reviewer is a hard nut to crack: "Snow Patrol are better off sticking to what they are good at." Maybe they should have aimed for a younger audience...
...Aussie sports nut, a Westie and a manual laborer. Having been retrenched from his factory job, Luc is also part of that exclusive tribe in Australia known as the unemployed (5% of the workforce, if you believe the headline unemployment rate is a reliable guide). In an early scene Luc goes to a motor dealership to apply for a job. "Are you a Holden or a Ford man?" asks the geeky employer. "Holden," says Luc, which to local audiences will mark him as one of a certain breed (to the non?petrol head, it's akin to telling twins apart...
LEMONS NEVER LIE RICHARD STARK "GROFIELD opened the closet door and the wrestler smiled up at him with his slit throat." Grofield is a summer-stock actor who moonlights as a usual-suspects-type contract criminal. He's a thief, not a psycho-killer, so when an actual murderous nut job tries to hire him, he walks away. He should have run. Instead, Grofield winds up in this first-rate hard-boiled mystery by Richard Stark (also known to aficionados of the genre by his real name, Donald E. Westlake), which reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper...