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Surrounded by a ring of mountains like a concert bandshell, Beirut has great acoustics. So yesterday's roiling street battles in the Lebanese capitol echoed through the city with a drumbeat of rocket explosions and a chorus of machine gun fire that sounded like the symphonic overture to civil war. When an early summer thunderstorm began overnight, it seemed as if the heavens themselves were taking up the ominous theme...
...inflicted upon Jewish populations in Muslim countries, hinders constructive discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Commemorating the Nakba has become another means of mourning the creation of the State of Israel, an event that Hamas and many of Israel’s neighbors still seek to reverse today through rocket attacks, kidnappings, and suicide bombings. While continual demands are made for a refugee right of return, the demand is focused exclusively on the right of all Palestinian refugees and their descendents to return to their former homes, and would mean, in effect, the demographic destruction of the Israeli state. This...
...with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth.The rookie smashed a hard line drive to the gap in right center field, driving in all three baserunners to put Harvard ahead, much to the delight of Walsh.“Didn’t he have a nice rocket out there to right field?” Walsh asked. “His bat’s coming along. I’m starting to see some balls that are hard hit from the freshmen, and that’s a good sign...
...that searches obsessively for the next big thing in the technology of warfare, is 50 years old. To celebrate, DARPA invited Vice President Dick Cheney, a former Defense Secretary well aware of the Agency's capabilities, to help blow out the candles. "This agency brought forth the Saturn 5 rocket, surveillance satellites, the Internet, stealth technology, guided munitions, unmanned aerial vehicles, night vision and the body armor that's in use today," Cheney told 1,700 DARPA workers and friends who gathered at a Washington hotel to mark the occasion. "Thank heaven for DARPA...
...Rodney King figure pleading for people to just get along. And even if Spurlock's one-man Peace Corps campaign doesn't work, he'll have fun trying. More fun than the viewer, sometimes. While embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, he gets to fire a rocket launcher. His reaction, and you could have guessed this: "That was awesome!" He also has advice for the locals. To attract tourists, Spurlock suggests, they should build a theme park. "You could say, 'Come to Tora Bora. It's da bomb!'" Sometimes he's most engaging when he's most jackassian...