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Just days after launching Israel's violent offensive in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took time off to share a leisurely weekend lunch with a few old friends. With helicopters buzzing overhead on their way to and from the front, the group sat on the patio of an elegant private home, eating tomato soup, egg noodles and steak. What struck one participant was Olmert's inner calm, the confidence he has exuded as he leads Israel through its biggest crisis in years. "You could see the intensity in his body language," says the friend. "But he was not nervous...
...Tonight, the drones are overhead, buzzing like flies. I can hear the sounds of jets, too, the engines of the F-16s grumbling high overhead. We have the young men to keep out Hizballah. But as the family in the bombed out house learned, who or what can keep out Israel's bombs...
Many of the challenges facing Dell seem to spring from the very innovations that made it a juggernaut. By selling direct, Dell keeps a lid on overhead and offers customized computers at competitive prices, with relatively swift delivery. As the price of computing dropped, Dell was consistently able to shed costs and maintain a price advantage over rivals. But this year Dell's competitors have attacked that price gap. HP slashed thousands of jobs and reduced the number of assembly plants, streamlining its supply chain and enabling it to go head to head with Dell on low-end machines. Retailers...
...Reality returned sharply as we crossed the mountains at Majdal Tarchiche and heard the sounds of jets overhead. I had been hearing them for days in Beirut, and we both tensed, waiting to hear the boom of an explosion on the road. That did not come until we had descended past the town of Zahle and into the Bekaa Valley, close to the Syrian border. We had stopped the car on a side road so that Ali could hand over his Lebanese mobile-phone chip to a friend heading into the country. The delay turned out to be a godsend...
...hospital staff seems to feel safe here, well protected from the countless missiles flying overhead, and the dozens of patients are almost oblivious with no noise penetrating from the outside and no television or newspapers to serve as reminders. In private, though, Gharios takes me quietly to the side and shakes his head. "We can't go on like this for more than a few weeks," he says. Supplies are already running short and dialysis patients are staying home and suffering, knowing hospitals can no longer provide adequate care. In addition, despite Gharios' plan, many of his staff members have...