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...been more a product of circumstance than strategic design. Sharon, as the elder statesman of the Likud Party, was made caretaker leader two years ago after the party's candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, was trounced by Barak. And it was in his capacity as opposition leader that he led a phalanx of security men onto Jerusalem's Temple Mount in September 2000, to underline his opposition to Barak's negotiations over sharing it with the Palestinians. The visit sparked the first riots of what became the Al Aqsa intifada. And the intifada brought Barak tumbling down, opening the road to Sharon...
...Greek phalanx - columns of spear-carriers drawn largely from free property owners with a substantial stake in a battle's outcome - established infantrymen as the centerpiece of European military power. At the Battle of Poitiers (A.D. 732) Frankish infantry, the phalanx's latest adaptation, routed much-feared Muslim cavalrymen. The Franks' victory confirmed, says Hanson, "that good heavy infantry, if it maintained rank and found a defensible position, usually defeated good cavalry...
...Zidane, Claude Makelele and Philippe Christanval. Oh. And don't forget the German Bundesliga, home of Bixente Lizarazu and Youri Djorkaeff. Les Bleus, as the French national team is commonly known, are scattered across Europe's best leagues. Keeping the first-XI regulars company in foreign lands are a phalanx of up-and-comers that, by common consent among the game's pundits, represent the most powerful force in modern football...
...Greek phalanx?columns of spear-carriers drawn largely from free property owners with a substantial stake in a battle's outcome?established infantrymen as the centerpiece of European military power. At the Battle of Poitiers (A.D. 732) Frankish infantry, the phalanx's latest adaptation, routed much-feared Muslim cavalrymen. The Franks' victory confirmed, says Hanson, "that good heavy infantry, if it maintained rank and found a defensible position, usually defeated good cavalry...
...brush. (President Clinton never rang the bell; his advisers warned him that the image would be replayed endlessly if the market dropped.) But while ringing was once limited mainly to heads of state and tony Wall Street types, things have got loosey-goosey lately. Since Sept. 17, when a phalanx of leaders appeared to help instill confidence in the reopening market, bell ringers have included such financial heavy hitters as Victoria's Secret model Tyra Banks and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants. Hmmm. Wonder if Bob is into cyclicals or techs...