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...While authorities put the heat on Hizballah here, the U.S. has also moved to try to rein in the terror group abroad. In a private meeting in Damascus last April, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Syrian President Bashar Assad to restrain Hizballah forces that had been firing rockets at Israel from the north. A diplomatic source critical of Iran's role in arming Hizballah tells TIME that the U.S. has at least twice asked Saudi Arabia to stop giving Iranian military supply planes overflight permission for loads of weaponry earmarked for Hizballah. "We continually raise this issue with diplomatic...
...album is saved from sounding like a sinister movie soundtrack by the ministrations of Sinead O’Connor, who has one of the most poignant and beautiful voices in pop. Though she never gives full rein to her devastating range, her emotional performance on “A Prayer For England” stands out on an album that sounds almost frigidly intellectual...
...Nogal bombing has the markings of I.R.A. and ETA tutelage. They point in particular to the sophisticated remote-control detonation of the car bomb. Colombia suffered a horrific rash of urban bombings just over a decade ago, when the drug lord Pablo Escobar lashed out at government efforts to rein in his cocaine cartel. The FARC is similarly piqued by Uribe's counterinsurgency efforts and recent U.S. aid increases for Colombia's weak but improving military. Last Friday, at least 16 people were killed in an explosion during a police raid in the southern city of Neiva that authorities attributed...
Within moments I learned a couple of key things. One was that your first day is no time to take over the sound system. Retail director Brendan Wittlinger keeps a tight rein on the stack of CDs, none of which were by the Beatles, Wings or even Band Aid. Basically, Brendan's style is to play that Missy Elliott album again and again until I want to kill him. I also learned that I was a little off when I decided to wear a suit...
...linked to the loss of natural support groups, as individuals in an increasingly mobile culture migrate farther and farther from home. "In the past," he says, "we lived close to our extended families in highly structured communities. People could take care of their own and rein them...