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...spot on the Top 10 charts alongside the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1965. Raised on a Tennessee sharecropper's farm, Arnold never lost touch with his roots. Even as he gained an increasingly cosmopolitan following with crossover hits like Make the World Go Away, he continued to refer to himself as the "Tennessee Plowboy," at one point even crediting his success to hard work on the farm. "That's why I wanted to play the guitar," he said in 1947. "So I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...
...leader Nasrallah called the government's telecom crackdown an act of war, accused it of doing Israel's dirty work, and said that Hizballah would fight to protect itself unless the government promised not to shut down the network. But government leaders responded only by saying that they would refer the issue to the army, which is considered the country's only neutral institution. A Hizballah spokesman rejected the overture, and on the streets today, opposition fighters viewed the government proposal with visceral disdain. "These are the orders of Olmert," said one, referring to Israel's Prime Minister. "If they...
More important, Ickes has never hidden his disdain for the way Clinton's campaign for President was run through the early primaries and has expressed special contempt for Mark Penn, the erstwhile chief strategist who was demoted in early April. Ickes loves to refer to the rest of the campaign's high command as "the thought police" for its habit of denying reality for the sake of message discipline...
...joined the European Union in 2004; the northern, mainly Turkish part has been an international pariah since 1974, when Turkish forces invaded the country after Greece's then ruling military junta vowed to annex the island. Only Turkey recognizes the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; Greek Cypriots refer to it as "occupied territory." The North has just one extradition treaty (with Turkey), and scant police and prosecutorial cooperation with the outside world. "It's a legal black hole," says one Greek Cypriot official...
...director Chiara Condi ’08 said that ease of accessibility may account for the popularity of the Harvard Square shelter, which is located in the basement of University Lutheran Church. “There are a lot of shelters further out but every time we try to refer someone to one out there they say, ‘I can’t make it out there,’” she said. “There’s a large portion of the homeless population that is working and for them to stay...